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incentive to regular attendance afforded by the medals in question is
useful, and that the difficulty could be met by a regulation that absences
through illness or in consequence of infectious disease in their homes, duly
certified by a medical practitioner, should not disqualify children otherwise
entitled to medals.
The Public Health and Housing Committee recommended—
"That the Council concur in this opinion and the London County
Council be so informed."
Evening Play Centres and Infectious Diseases.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Chairman of the Committee for Evening Play
Centres for children attending Public Elementary Schools, asked that
notice of notifications received of infectious diseases might be supplied in
order that children from homes where infectious diseases exist might be
excluded. The Public Health and Housing Committee authorised that
daily lists of cases of infectious diseases be supplied.