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Day and Sunday Schools are notified, also the Librarian, of all
cases and contacts, if thought necessary.
No scholar from any family affected is allowed to return to
school without an authorising certificate from this Department.
Directly the patient is removed the room or rooms are disinfected
with formaldehyde gas, or sprayed with formalin, as may
be more convenient.
The bedding is removed to the Depot for disinfection in a
Washington Lyons Disinfector, then returned to the house in a
separate bedding van.
In most cases a notice is served upon the owner to strip the
walls of paper, etc.
(a) Anti-Toxin.
A supply of Anti-toxin is kept at the Council Offices, and the
residences of the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Sanitary
Inspector, where it can be obtained at any time.
About 90 tubes (180,000 units) were supplied during the year.
(b) Swabs for Diphtheria, Etc.
The Medical Practitioners are supplied with swabs, sputum
bottles and pipettes, for the purpose of assisting in the diagnosis
of the different diseases mentioned, and a further supply can always
be obtained at the addresses given above.
(c) Non-Notifiable Infectious Cases, such as Measles, etc.
I have drawn up a code of instructions for the guidance of
Teachers in the Council Schools (and others), showing what may
be the preliminary symptoms of Notifiable and Non-notifiable
Infectious Diseases, and the time that such cases are to be excluded
from school attendance.