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WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT.
There were no further cases in the school after the re-opening. During the closure the
drains were examined and tested. It was found that the drains were defective and that
there was an escape of "sewer air" from an unsealed gulley just outside an air-brick
ventilating the space under the floor of the infants' school where the cases occurred.

Table 33 is new to these reports. It contains summaries of the returns of infectious
diseases to which notification does not apply. Information relating to these diseases is
supplied by the school teachers and others. The returns are undoubtedly incomplete but
will be useful for comparison in future years. They indicate the prevalence of the diseases
mentioned in each quarter of the year, as well as the incidence on the various schools. Here
again the Board Schools show greater prevalence of infectious illness than do the Voluntary
Schools. No schools were closed by the Council for any of the diseases mentioned in the
Table, but the following partial closures of Board Schools were enforced, on the advice of the
Board's Medical Officer :—
Campbell Street : Class-rooms 1) and F, Infants' Department, trom July 1st to holidays.
Essendine Road : Infants' Department, from 17th December, 1903, to January 11th, 1904.