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Children diagnosed as suffering from Tuberculous Glands, Alopaecia,
Rheumatism, Anaemia, Debility and Cervical Adenitis are among those who have
derived benefit from this treatment.

Whenever doctors and nurses attend at schools to investigate the incidence
of infectious disease, the headmasters, headmistresses and other teachers are
always ready to co-operate.
The fact that the Medical Officers who act as School Medical Officers are from
time to time in attendance at the Infectious Diseases Hospital enables them to keep
track of infectious disease in the town in a way which would otherwise be impossible.
Where the attendance of a school falls below 60 per cent. and in the opinion of
the Medical Officer this low attendance is directly due to the prevalence of infectious
disease the school sessions so affected are not counted in estimating the average
attendance for the purpose of grant. During 1934, seven such certificates were
granted for this purpose.
Generally speaking, with reference to the exclusion from school of individual
children whose exclusion is desirable in order to prevent the spread of disease, the
Exclusion Periods contained in the Appendix to the Memorandum on Closure of and
Exclusion from School, issued jointly by the Ministry of Health and the Board of
Education, is our accepted standard and only in exceptional circumstances do we
depart from it, but there must of necessity be a number of cases which have to be
dealt with on their own merits.