HEALTH IN THE SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2625, 22 November 1915, Page 6

HEALTH IN THE SCHOOL

QUESTION' OF DISINFECTION. _ The Terrace School Committee is con* siderably exercised over the question of school rooms in connection with infectious disease epidemics, such as fever or diphtheria. The committee points out that when a case occurs in a. housebold, the Health Department, after removing tlie patient to the'hospital, at once disinfects the house or tho room which lias been ocoupied by the patient. In those cases, where the patient is a pupil at school, it appears to the committee imperative that the room in which the pupil was taught should be at once disinfected .by the Health Department. This action should bo taken without reference to the Education Board or committee. If these bodies have to he communicated with, then there will be inevitable and culpable delay. _ If tho home of the child is always and at once disinfected in cases of serious infectious disease, it appears to the-committee much more necessary that the room in school occupied by tho child during tho incubation period should be thoroughly disinfected. In the interests of the health of the community, and especially of the youthful section of the community, the committee urges the Education Board to frame regulations embodying the policy vcoommended above.