Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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fectious disease has been modified, and the rule is now as
follows:—
"No child should attend an Infants' School from a house
where there is a case of Measles, German Measles, Whooping
Cough, Chicken-pox or Mumps, but in departments for older
scholars, children who have previously suffered from the
disease in question need not be excluded under similar circumstances,
if the Medical Officer of Health is satisfied that
proper precautions for isolation have been taken."
Under the old system of excluding all children coming
from a house where infectious disease existed, the attendances
in the mixed schools were frequently quite needlessly affected.
The experiment of admitting children from infected houses
to the school was tried in the case of St. John's last
November, and appeared fully justified, the weekly average
attendance remaining at about 88 per cent.
School Closure .—Owing to the presence of epidemic disease the closure of one or both departments of most of the schools was found necessary in the course of the year.
School | Disease. | Inclusive Dates of Closure. |
---|---|---|
St John's Infants and Mixed | Chicken-pox | 28 Feb. to 6 Ap. |
Holy Trinity, Infants | Whooping Cough and Measles | 5 Mar. to 6 Ap. |
„ „ „ | ditto. | 30 Ap.to 21 My. |
„ „ Mixed | ditto. | 9 Mar. to 6 Ap. |
St Mary's Infants and Mixed | Measles. | |
Squire's Lane, Infants and Mixed | Whooping Cough and Measles | 30th April to 21st May. |
Long ???ane, Infants | ditto. | 8 My to 21 My. |
Albert Street. Infants | ditto. | |
St John's Infants | Measles. | 6 Nov. to 29 Nv. |
The Infants' and Mixed Departments of Long Lane
School were closed owing to drainage work from 15th to 26th
May.