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( 30)
"Where the Department are satisfied that
by reason of a notice of the Sanitary Authority
under Article 88, or any provision of an Act
of Parliament, requiring the exclusion of certain
children, or by reason of the exclusion under
medical advice of children from infected houses,
the average attendance has been seriously
diminished, and that consequently a loss of
annual grant would, but for this article, be
incurred, the Department have power to make a
special grant not exceeding the amount of such
loss in addition to the ordinary grant."
Under this article it would be practical for the
Medical Officer of Health, on receiving a notice from a
School that certain children were absent from infectious
diseases, on satisfying himself that such was
the case, to give a certificate so that the school
authorities might receive the grant without the school
being closed by the Sanitary Authority. To enable
the Medical Officer to give such a certificate it would
be necessary for the school teachers to send a weekly
return of the children absent, and I have prepared a
form to be supplied to the head teacher of the various
elementary schools. I am in hopes that the plan
may be made to work as it would be of mutual
advantage, and am glad to say the School Board have
expressed a wish that it should be carried out.