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To this the following reply was received :—
School Board for London,
Victoria. Embankment, W.C.,
November 6th, 1880.
Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green, School.
Sir,— Your letter of the 4th instant was considered by the School Management Committee,
at their meeting yesterday. After careful consideration, the Committee concurred
in your opinion that the prohibition from attendance at school should, in the case of the
inhabitants of the Industrial Dwellings, be extended to the whole block in which a single
case of disease exists, as each block has one staircase common to the whole of the
tenements.
Instructions to this effect will be forwarded to the Head Teachers of the Wilmot street
School.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
G. H. CROAD,
George P. Bate, Esq., M.D. Clerk to the Board.
"We continue to exchange confidential communications with the
Superintendent of School Board Visitors, and have received much valuable
information in this manner. Many children from infected houses have
been prevented attending school, and I believe the spread of disease has
been by this means considerably checked, though probably at the expense
of some interruption of education, and a consequent diminution of the
salaries of the masters, who are, to a considerable extent, paid by results.
I think an average allowance should be made to the masters for children
kept from school for sanitary reasons.
DIPHTHERIA.
(Decennial average, 7.1).
Eight deaths were registered as from this disease. One was a case of
Diphtheritic Paralysis. Nineteen cases were reported to us during the
year.
FEVER.
(Decennial average, 60).
The deaths from Fever were 37, against 56 last year, a considerable
decrease. Of the deaths registered in this parish, 21 were Typhoid,
6 Simple Fever, and 3 Typhus. The remaining 7 deaths occurred in
hospital, but as the returns furnished by the Asylums' Board make no
distinction between the various kinds of Fever, I am unable to class them.
Two of the Typhus deaths were certified by one medical man. The total
number of Fever cases reported during the year was 449; of these 91