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Inspection of Schools.
A complete list of the public and private schools
and dames' schools within the Parish was prepared
this year, and some progress has been made towards
a systematic sanitary inspection. The methods
of warming and ventilation, the general state of the
health of pupils, and the cases of sickness in children
absent from School, ought to be known to the
Medical Officer of Health in every District; especially
cases of the zymotic form of disease. Nothing
is more common than an extension of contagious
diseases from a neglect to isolate the first known
cases. In fact, it ought to be imperative on parents
not to send their other children to school, after
they have slept or been in intimate relation with
one or more suffering from some form of contagious
malady; yet it is certainly not at all uncommon for
such diseases as measles and scarlatina, to be so
propagated.
Inspection of Vaccination.
Hitherto from want of an efficient machinery to
enforce the provisions of former Acts of Vaccination,
the law has been very imperfectly carried out;
hence it arose that in the Act of 1867 power was
given to Boards of Guardians to appoint a Public
Vaccination Officer, whose duty is to call upon
defaulters and bring them under the operations of
the law. In January last this office was entrusted
to me, and in placing myself in communication