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dealing with the notification of disease by teachers,
but the matter is referred to in the Memorandum of
the Local Government Board on Infectious Diseases, a
document addressed to local authorities, which is
bound up with the annotated edition of the Code
which is used by most teachers.* The Code issued by
the London School Board, 1897 edition, contains the
following useful regulation, Article 148 :—
(ii). Any child showing symptoms of an infectious disease, or any child
coming from a house where an infectious disease exists, must be sent home AT
ONCE, and the Superintendent of Visitors must be in mediately informed of the
case,in order that inquiries may at once be made with a view to proper steps being
taken to prevent the children living in the same house or tenement from attending
School. The Medical Officer of Health for the District must also at the same
time be informed of the child's exclusion, and furnished with the name and
address of the child and the reason for its exclusion, on a form with which the
teachers will be supplied by the Head Office.
In another paragraph of the same Article, the
term "infectious disease" is defined to mean any of
the diseases mentioned in the schedule of notification;:
and it is added, that "there are other diseases which
are infectious, such as mumps, measles, chicken pox,
whooping cough, and ring worm," which are not
notified. "Were the instructions conveyed in the
Article acted on, much information of very great
value would be given. No certificate, as therein
provided, has been received by the Department within
the past four years.
The Education Code prescribes a fixed amount of
cubic space for each child, but it has been recently
* The " N.U.T. Edition " is here referred to.