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Infectious Disease.
The schools were comparatively free from infectious
disease during 1938, with the result that more school time
was able to be given by the pupils.
Notifiable infectious diseases were few and no spread
of infection occurred in schools. Whooping cough,
mumps and chicken pox were below the average and
contagious diseases such as impetigo considerably lessened.
The lessening of impetigo might be, and is possibly, due
to the more prevalent use of handtowels and the abolition
of roller towels in the schools.
No change was made in the regulations governing
infectious diseases and the recommendations of the
Memorandum on the Closure of and Exclusion from
Schools were followed.