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children have obtained a medical certificate of freedom from
infection, based on a bacteriological examination.
In the event of diphtheria becoming prevalent in a district the school
teachers will be instructed not to re-admit any child, who is absent from
sore throat or diphtheria, until they receive a certificate of freedom from
diphtheria, based on the results of a bacteriological examination.
Therefore, might I ask you to kindly co-operate with the Education
Department of the London County Council and myself in this matter, and
be good enough to inform the parents of any patient whom you may be
called upon to treat that before such patient can be considered free from
infection and allowed to return to school and mix with other children a
bacteriological examination of the throat must be made.
Thanking you in anticipation for your kind co-operation for preventing
the spread of such a terrible disease.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
FRED. WM. ALEXANDER,
Medical Officer of Health.