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Non-Notifiable Diseases of Childhood.
Head teachers return a Form M.I. 13 showing children excluded
from school as suspected contacts or suffering from suspected infectious
disease. This return has proved of considerable value in ascertaining
certain cases which although notifiable had through inadvertance
not come to our notice by more conventional methods. In addition,
this form shows the cases of non-notifiable infectious disease occurring
among school children during the year, the number reported being
as follows :—
Chiekenpox 270
Conjunctivitis 8
Gastro - enteritis 1
Impetigo 7
Mumps 361
Ringworm 5
Rubella 85
These numbers must necessarily be accepted with reserve since
they represent our only available, but not necessarily wholly accurate,
information.