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Whooping Cough.
Resulting from a visit to the Hook Schools on
December 4th, a statement by the Master, Mr.
Garrett, showed that on the morning of that day,
out of a total on the books of 201 children there
were present 119, equal to only 59 per cent., and
that these abstentions were nearly all of them
due to Whooping Cough.
This Disease not being notifiable it was impossible
to give the exact number of houses
infected and therefore the Managers were advised
that the school should be closed as from that date
for four weeks—to January 4th, on which day the
holidays terminated, and the re-opening or otherwise,
will depend on a further consideration of all
the circumstances connected with the outbreak.
On January 5th, 1920, there were present 155
out of 201 on the books, equal to 77 per cent, as
against 59 per cent, on December 4th last. The
schools were therefore re-opened and a further
report made at the end of the week was satisfactory.
Anthrax.
About the middle of November a paragrapn
appeared in the Press to the effect that two cases
of death from Anthrax had occurred in the
Midlands and that another case was under suspicion.
It was further stated that it was possible
that some shaving brushes recently imported from