DEPARTMENTAL PREPARATIONS IN VIEW OF PARALYSIS

Chronicle (Levin), 9 January 1948, Page 5

DEPARTMENTAL PREPARATIONS IN VIEW OF PARALYSIS

CHRbSTGHITRCH, Jan. 8. No decision about the.date for tho probable reopening of schools in'view' of tho infautile ]>aralysis outbroak, has vet been made, aceording to the ' 'abiael Ministers eoneerntKl. The Aliuister of Health, Miss Howard, said today that 110 eon^itieration whatever had yet been given bv tho Health Department to authorising the reopening of schools. It wa» nnlikely that tlie matter would be considered while the present hot weather contiinied, she added. The .Minister of Educatio.n, Alr. j Mc( 'oombs, said that the Education 1 Depai tment had prepared for its ser ! vices to function whether the schools j reopened at the beginning of Eebruarv 1 as seheduled or not. Teachers liad been instructed tcF report for work as usual at tlu beginning of February an>l if the epideinic subsided, the children could be calle.d to school at short notice I by broadcast announcements ano j jnotices 111 the newspapers. j Mr. .McCoombs said that if the [schools could uot reopen as usual, les- j j sons would be carried on by corres j ipoiulence. Arrangements had been made for the Vegular lessons of the ' Department 's ( 'orrespondence Sehool toi be made available and stocks of thes-» were now being .priuted to cover the tirst six weeks of the school year. Ali j these u ere;'i*lcsi gnetT for ti'sfe* wifhoilf re' 1 ference to text books so there sliould ' be 110 coniplication iu this respect. Use j I would also be made of the broadcasts j ! to schools.