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(a) Exclusion of children actually suffering from infectious
diseases, or coming from infected houses.
The Memorandum of the Ministry of Health and the
Board of Education on Closure of and Exclusion from
School is closely followed in this particular.
(b) Closure of Schools.
(c) Disinfection of Schools.
(a) In the case of notifiable diseases occurring in houses
where there are children attending school, notices on special
exclusion forms arc sent out from the Public Health Department
to the Head Teachers and Chief Attendance Officer. Children
from such infected houses are excluded until the necessary
re-admission forms have been issued.
The notifiable infectious diseases occurring amongst school
children are dealt with in the report of the Medical Officer of
Health.
(b) School closure is rarely resorted to to-day for the purpose
of controlling infectious diseases. During 1032 it was not
found necessary to close any of the schools in the district for this
purpose.
When the attendance falls below 60%, certificates max be
supplied by the School Medical Officer to that effect as outlined in
Para. 15 (ii) of Administrative Memorandum No. 51, 1927.
No certificates in accordance with this Rule were required
to be issued during the year under review.
(c) The routine disinfection of each school was carried out by
the Public Health Department during the mid-summer holiday.
Disinfection of classrooms was also carried out periodically as the
necessity arose.
(d) Valuable information is obtained from the weekly
returns of absences due to infectious diseases furnished by the
Head Tcachers. The numbers of cases of non-notifiable diseases
reported from the schools during 1932 were as follows:—
Measles 331
German Measles 1
Whooping Cough 13
Mumps 8
Chicken Pox 45
Measles was prevalent in epidemic form during the months
of March, April, and May.
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