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 Harrow]
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look after the larger number of children if the younger ones were not
admitted. From an administrative point of view there would be an
advantage in such an arrangement as less interference would be caused
on the occurrence of infections amongst the children. There would not
be the same necessity to bar the admission of a child over two to a
nursery in which measles had appeared as there would be in the case
of those of under two years of age.