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am of opinion that contacts attending senior departments
need not be excluded. It cannot be
questioned that the presence of these contacts in
school might, on occasion, result in the infection
of another scholar. But considering the whole
question broadly and having in mind the extent to
which contact takes place outside the school, I
think on the whole that the amount of good done
by the exclusion of senior contacts is not sufficient
to compensate for the loss of attendance. Although
there is always the possibility of a contact
infecting another scholar in school, I do not believe
that in actual experience this is an important
factor in the spread of infectious disease.
The case of infants is different. They are
more liable to contract the diseases which are also
much more dangerous to infants than to older
children. I therefore recommend that all contacts
attending infants' Departments should be
excluded.
With regard to the more serious Infectious
Diseases, such as Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever, i
propose to continue the present practice of excluding
all contacts"
After considering' this report you adopted the following
Regulations :—