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Education Gazette reminding teachers of their duties. It is
hoped that such notice will have the desired effect.
BATHING OF CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
A letter was received from the London County Council,
stating that the Council was advised that numbers of children
attended the hospitals suffering from violent inflammation of
the ear, which had been materially aggravated by bathing whilst
in an unfit condition ; that swimming instructors and school
teachers in the employ of the Council had therefore been warned
that there was grave risk to life incurred in bathing by children
suffering from any form of discharge of the ear, and that even
when the discharge had ceased, such children should not be
permitted to enter the water until a medical certificate had been
obtained that they could bathe without risk, and under the
circumstances it was deemed desirable to bring the matter to
your notice.
The letter was considered by your Public Health Committee,
who directed that notices to the effect that children
suffering from ear disease should not be permitted to bathe,
be posted ujj in public baths belonging to your Council.
EXPOSURE OF A PATIENT SUFFERING FROM SCARLET
FEVER.
On the 24th March information was received that a case
of scarlet fever existed at Panmure Road, Sydenham.
On visiting the house a man was found desquamating
freely and in an infectious state. He informed me that on the
previous Tuesday, March 21st, not feeling well, he visited the
out-patients' department of a hospital in London, where he was