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St. George (0-59), Hamlet (0-39), Regent (04! ), Great Marlborough
(0-79), and Covent Garden (032) Wards. Seventeen deaths of infants
under one year, 29 children between one and five, and one over five
years. Compared with the population living under five years of
age, the rates are London, 3-23 ; Westminster, 3*67 ; St. George's
Union, 3-48; Strand Union, 3*64; and Westminster Union, 3-93.
Information reached me from schools of only eight cases.
Schools and Infectious Disease.—The teachers of Board Schools
are required to notify me when they exclude children on account of
infectious disease, but teachers in Voluntary Schools are not compelled
to do so. It is to the interest of such schools that they
should notify, as thereby the grant may not be lost by the absence
of such children. Several schools had adopted the practice, and the
Public Health Committee considered it was desirable to extend it to
all the schools in the City, and that the teachers should be supplied
with the books of forms on which to notify. There are five Board
Schools in the City, with 3,550 children on the roll.*
There are 36 Elementary (three being private) Schools. With
four exceptions all the Elementary Schools acceded to the request,
and the teachers of some of them have very promptly informed me
of cases of infectious sickness, and were thus enabled to secure a
substantial addition to the school grant at the end of the year.
There are 13 Higher Grade Schools in the City which do not
receive Government grants, but four of them agreed to notify if it
would be of assistance in ascertaining the existence of infectious
disease.

* A sixth Board School has since been opened at Millbank.
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