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The beds reserved at Worthing, Broadstairs, Dover, and Seaton
by arrangement with the Invalid Children's Aid Association were
cancelled at the outbreak of war.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The returns forwarded each week by th# head teachers giving
particulars of. all new . cases of" non-notifiable infectious disease
coming to their knowledge included 1,342 cases of measles, 190
of whooping cough, 151 of chickenpox and 21 of mumps.
Children to the number of 223 were excluded under Article
20 (6) ol the Education Code for the following conditions :
Impetigo 116
Ringworm of body 1
Scabies 101
Other skin diseases 3
Conjunctivitis 3
Blepharitis 1
Scabies and impetigo 2
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No closure took place under Articles 22 or 23 (b) of the Code—
Grant Regulations. .
No schools required certificates under Paragraph 15 (ii) of the
Administrative Memorandum No. 51 issued by the Board of
Education.
Diphtheria Immunization.—In recent years every step has been
taken to encourage the immunization not only of school children
but of children under 5 years of age. Posters have been exhibited
in. the schools and at the Health Centres and leaflets have been
distributed to the mothers attending the latter. The response
has not been great, due apparently to the fact that the incidence
of diphtheria in this district has remained low and the attention
of the public has therefore not been vividly drawn to the dangers
of diphtheria.
During the early months of the war, on account of the insistence
of problems of evacuation and of A.R.P. Services the attention