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School Notes. 31
Cards should be issued for the Vision, Teeth, Ear Discharge,
Scabies, Ringworm, Impetigo and Malnutrition. (Measles, Whooping
Cough and the verminous conditions, are already dealt with by
leaflets). The general care and tidiness of the children has not
been up to the standard usual in this district and is probably
explained correctly by the fact that the mothers are much less at
home owing to war conditions; and to the increased cost of clothing.
It is also desirable that caretakers should be taught how to clean
schools on some dustless system, either by vacuum cleaners or by
the use of a dust allayer. A cleansing station has been erected
in the Council's Depot for the convenience of soldiers on leave, its
uses might be extended to school children suffering from Itch
or verminous conditions.
Notifications received from Head Teachers concerning children
absent on account of infectious or contagious disease (sufferers and
contacts) comprise the following :—
Influenza 545
Measles 241
Mumps 207
Whooping Cough 100
Chicken Pox 42
Ringworm 21
Scabies 8
Diphtheria 4
Scarlet Fever 3
Other Diseases 4
Coughs and Colds 50
The school attendance has been greatly diminished this year
owing to the prevalence of Measles in the spring term and to out.
breaks of Influenza in the summer and winter terms.
SCHOOL CLOSURE has been necessary on five occasions
and was practically general in the schools in the district during the
Influenza outbreaks in July and October. Individual schools were
closed in January, February and March for infectious diseases.