A LURKING MENACE.
'% '•/';!-' 1.. : .*'■; : ;■;■. BACtLH; m: ~\ ;M :> .-.•While , , the*'official-'count of rotes "was , proceeding at the Soutli Wellington School Oonimitteo .election -.last evening,", the waiting assemblage talked and put various Questions,to the headmaster-(Mr. George Pius), concerning matters : affecting' "thV welfare of the children..; One of.thequeßtioners cast a sprat' and hooked a mackerel. Was it not a fact, he asked, that the Health Department' notified head-teachers of cases of infectious, disease? .There were rumours of :;diphtheria in the' district, and he was rather concerned for the welfare of the children.- .;■ .-, ; . ";■ . -.-' ■<■■ Mr. Flux -said - that so far : one case of diphtheria had.vfce'en;.teported.,, .'There was, however, some amonoment wanted in the present system of. supervision. whicn was exercised by!the Health Department. He had- written -to-the-Department -soma , .' time. with the,idea of securing some protection for the -. school -. against infection from children ;who were allowed to return to'school'beforo the period of infection ■ was ovor, -' or '■' caine ■■ from -families in which some infections disease was pre-' sent. ■ His'suggestion its valuu had. been admitted by the Department— that the head-teacher of a school should, in addition to some notification that such and such a.child vras_ suffering from an infectious malady, or that it came from a family in whioh infectious disease was present, bo given some indication as' to the period over which such children should be compelled to remain away from school. Thorb was, further, a,very grave 'response bility upon jiiirents :in connection, with this matter, and it Wfts only; by. their aetivo co-oneratiori that systeniatic supervision could be , -possible.- The Health Department, while' admi tting ■ tho reasonableness and valuo of his idea, had given the opinion that an pitansion of supervision along tho lines indicated woald not be practicable. ' : .■'■' .- ' r - '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 938, 4 October 1910, Page 5
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284A LURKING MENACE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 938, 4 October 1910, Page 5
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