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also solicited the co-operation and important influence
of ministers of religion, and of medical practitioners, in
order to achieve this result.
Impressed with the necessity of using every possible
endeavour to prevent the spread of this disease, which
had already assumed the proportions of an epidemic, I
addressed, with the sanction of the Committee, a letter
to the London School Board, calling their attention to
a resolution, passed at my suggestion, and to an extract
from my bi-monthly report. Both of these are subjoined:—
Resolution.
"That a communication be addressed to the London
School Board, requesting that immediate instructions
be given to the School Board Visitors to
furnish a list to the Medical Officers of Health of
their district, of every case of infectious disease
coming under their notice, either through the
absence of the children attending such schools,
or through any other channel."
Extract.
"Furnished with such a list, the Inspector of Nuisances
could visit the infected homes of such children,
and supply, if necessary, disinfectants, &c., and
the Medical Officer could suggest to the schoolmaster
or school authorities, the desirableness of
not allowing any child who had been absent from
infectious disease, to return to school without a
medical certificate."
The School Board thereupon gave the required
directions, and the result was, that through Mr.
Honeybun, one of their visitors, the Sanitary