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" The Nurse will visit the school each morning,
taking with her a list of children who are known to
require special observation, and will also receive from
the Head Teacher a list of any children who are absent
on account of any suspicious illness.
"The Nurse will specially examine known contacts
in the classes, will generally look through the other
children in the class, and will also examine children
who are brought to her notice by the teacher.
" The Nurse will advise the Head Teacher as to the
children who may appear unfit for school and will
report such to the Medical Officer.
" In case of children reported absent on account of
infectious disease the Nurse will visit the home or
transmit the name to the Nurse in charge of the
portion of the district where the child resides, so that
the child may be visited.
" The Medical Officer will arrange for certificates of
exclusion to be sent where necessary."
It may be hoped that this daily supervision of classes,
and visiting of homes, may tend to prevent the retention
in class of any child who is unfit, either for his own sake or
for fear of infection to others, and may also enable illness
to be recognised and treated at the earliest possible moment.
The success of the measure largely depends on the willing
co-operation of the teachers and should be of much
assistance to them in deciding as to whether a child is fit
to remain in or to return to school.
Under the arrangements above referred to, by which
daily examination of throats were made after the occurrence
of diphtheria in a class, all the children in affected classes
were examined on 136 occasions and 6 swabs were taken
from doubtful throats.