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from Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Smallpox, or Typhus Fever, and excluded
under this rule, should not bo allowed to resume attendance at
school within two months, unless a Certificate from tho Medical Officer
of the Sanitary Authority, or of the Union, is produced to show that
he or she may safely be re-admitted; but when a child has been
attended by a duly qualified medical practitioner, his Certificate shall
be sufficient. If the school fees are remitted for such child, or paid
by tho Guardians of the Union at tho time of its exclusion, the cost
of the above Certificate will be defrayed by the Board.
Symptoms of Infectious Diseases.
Scarlet Fever.—By the child being feverish, and having a sore
throat, and a red rash ovor the chest, and often elsewhere.
Diphtheria.—By the child being feverish and having a sore throat,
with white patches on the interior of the throat.
Smallpox.—By the child being feverish, and having a number of
small pimples over tho face.
Typhus Fever.—By the child being feverish, having headache, and
a rash over the chest, stomach, and wrists.
Whooping Cough would be recognised by the child coughing until
it is out of breath, and then drawing in its breath with a crowing
noise, the child often being sick from the violence of the cough.
Measles.—By the child being feverish, having all tho symptoms of
a bad cold, running at tho eyes, &c., and by the presence of a rash on
tho face and wrists.
School Board for London,
Victoria Embankment, W.C.
10th March, 1886.
Sir,
It may bo within your knowledge that a Committee of the
School Board for London recently considered the question of overpressure,
and recommended that a short statement of the premonitory
symptoms of diseases likely to affect children whether arising from
over-work or otherwise, be drawn up by Medical Authority for the
use of the Teachers and Local Managers.
May I ask you as one of the Medical practitioners to whom the
Board refer Pupil Teachers for health Certificates, whether you have
any suggestion to offer to the School Management Committee to
enable them to carry out that recommendation.
I am your obedient Servant,
G. H. CROAD,
Dr. G. P. Bate, Clerk to the Board.
412, Bethnal Green Eoad, E.