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" It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that children should not be
allowed to return to school after infectious illness, until their infected
clothing and the sick rooms with their contents have been thoroughly disinfected."
The Form referred to was as follows :—
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ST. MARY ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON.
Confidential.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
" (Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Typhus, Typhoid Fever, &c.)
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" I have reason to believe that there case of at No.
Name of Head of Family [or of Sick Person]
Remarks
Signature
Department.
School.
" N.B.—1. That no child should be allowed to attend School from any house in
which Infectious Disease exists.
2. That the Medical Officer of Health will be glad to receive, for the
purpose of enquiry, the name and address of any child whose
absence from School is suspected to be due to Infectious
Disease."
Reports of suspected cases soon began to arrive from Head
Teachers, and from School Board Visitors also, who employed
forms supplied to them a long time previously ; for, after all,
what was done in 1888 was but a repetition cf what had been done
in 1877, when the School Board complied with my suggestion by
issuing instructions, first to the Visitors, and subsequently to
the Head Teachers, to report cases of infectious disease to the
several Medical Officers of Health in the Metropolis.
WHOOPING-uOUGH.
Whooping-cough, the cause of 86 deaths in 1887, proved
fatal in 1888 to 100 children under five years of age, 46 of them