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 Willesden]
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to the knowledge of the teacher either as affecting the scholars
or other children in the homes from which the scholars come.
Further details relating to these cases will be found in Tables on
pages 29 and 30, and in the tables issued in the quarterly statistics
appended. It is one of the great advantages of the system of
medical inspection adopted that each department of each school is
visited once a week by a medical man to whom questions of readmission
or continued exclusion from school may be referred in
respect of children whose condition raises these questions.
This system of notification by teachers and Attendance Officers
of cases or infectious disease occuring among scholars has been in
operation since 1903, and has proved of the utmost value in controlling
the spread of these diseases. The tables show the number
of cases coming to knowledge in this way.