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Two cases are at present waiting to be freed, and two have left
the borough without being freed. More than two-thirds of the
children were freed for school in eight weeks from the application
of X-rays, a result which compares favourably with the average
time of freeing in previous years. The longer period necessary in
some cases was due usually to non-attendance or very irregular
attendance for after-treatment.
ACTION TAKEN TO PREVENT SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The method of dealing with notifiable disease is dealt with in
the report to the Sanitary Committee of the Council. During the
year the undermentioned cases have been dealt with by the department:—
TABLE E. xv.
7,145 notices of illness (including duplicate notices) were
received from School Teachers or Attendance Officers during 1914.
5,712 notices of illness were sent to the Education Committee by
the Public Health Department.

The table has been modified to record only the number of actual
sufferers from the infectious diseases therein mentioned, as it is
thought that this information is of more practical use than a detailed
record of the number of notices sent.