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School Work. 45
in two years from want of use. Children with neglected squints
should not be allowed to attend school.
Teachers have also many opportunities of impressing upon
parents the dangers of neglected Tonsils and Adenoids.
Teachers should also keep an eye on children's heads and
not throw all the burden on the School nurse.
It is no trouble for the teachers to walk round the class, say
during a writing lesson, and scrutinise the children's heads.
On finding a dirty child she should be notified to the school
nurse at once.
The closure of Schools for non-notifiable diseases has the
disadvantage of at once depriving the M.O.H. of his source of
information ; for this reason alone measles and whooping cough
should be made notifiable diseases.
Certificates.
Two hundred and twenty-five certificates were given by the
M.O H. as the result of infectious diseases in School children
or their "contacts."
Fourteen certificates were given for verminous and contagious
cases.
One hundred and eighty-one certificates were given for School
attendance purposes.
The following non-notifiable infectious diseases have been