INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
THE CLOSING OF SCHOOLS,
Press Association. AUCKLAND, Wednesday.
The Health Officer wrote to the Board of Education stating that a general idea was prevalent that as soon as disease of an infectious nature appeared the schools should be closed. This was a measure that seldom ought to be enforced, except in the presence of actual - widespread epidemic,, and not even then as a matter of routine, nor unless there was a clear prospect of preventing the propagation of the disease, such as could ho looked for from less comprehensive action. As to tno exclusion from school of particular scholars, it might be laid down as a principle that all children suffering from any dangerous infectious, disease should he excluded from school until there was reason to believe they were hot in an infectious condition Infectious disease seriously interfered with the average attendance, and under the present method of payment there was la. strong incentive to headmasters to urge the closure of the school on committees.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2094, 31 May 1907, Page 3
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