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infectious disease, it needs to be pointed out that the withdrawal of Article 101 of the Education
Code, relating to the epidemic grant, is generally regarded as a retrograde step by medical officers of
health.
The question of the postponement of the age of school attendance is also discussed by Dr.
Kerr. In considering the value attaching to the exclusion from school of children under five years of
age, regard must necessarily be had for the conditions to which children thus excluded would be subject.
So far as infectious disease is concerned, some indication of the reduction in the prevalence of the two
notified diseases, viz., diphtheria and scarlet fever, which would be effected by exclusion of children of
particular ages will be found on pages 50-52 of this report.
Shirley F. Murphy,
Medical Officer of Health.
December, 1905.
To the London County Council.