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Disinfection is offered also in houses where deaths have
occurred from Tuberculosis of the lungs and Cancer.
Schools.— The segregation of children in schools at a
susceptible age is an important way in which infectious disease
may be spread; and the recognition at an early period of
symptoms should result in limiting the mimber.
The Education Authority is the Surrey County Council,
whose system of notifications, under the able directions of
Dr. T. Henry Jones, gives great assistance to our public health
work.
The Teachers in the schools have had sent them a memorandum,
issued by the County, giving the early symptoms and
signs of the infectious and contagious diseases likely to occur
among the scholars, so that suspicious cases may be at once
excluded. These names are notified to me, ae are also the
names of suspected absentees, unless known to have ~een
otherwise notified.
As occasions arise, I visit the schools, and classes have
been examined by me for Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Measles
and Whooping Cough. Head Teachers are informed by us of
the cases to be excluded on account of disease, either in the
scholars themselves, or in their homes, and notices are again
sent when they are to be re.admitted.
A memorandum was issued jointly by the Local Government
Board and the Board of Education on closure and exclusion of
children from school. This is an extension and amplification
of the previous memorandum, and among other things stress
is laid on the cordial co-operation between the School Medical
Officer and the Medical Officer of Health when they are not
the same individual, amid from what has already been stated
this co.operation exists. The methods by which school closure
can be effected are as follows:—