INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1916, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

CLEANING THE SCHOOLS.. At the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, the chairman reported:—"On March 14, at the request of (he chairman of the Hospital Board I attended a meeting of the sanitation committee of the Borough Council to consider what steps should be taken to mitigate ihe spread of this disease. Subsequently I instructed the overeeer to disinfect in accordance with a circular from the Public Health Department, the folowing schools: West End, Central, Fitzroy, Waitara and Inglewood. West End has been completed, and Fitzroy is now neing done. "Dr. Smith, the District Medical Officer, has now asked that all the country schools may be disinfected. This would jbe almost impossible if they were to be done in the samo way as the large schools. 1 have therefore asked that the District Health Officer may draw up directions in as simple a method as possible for disinfecting these schools, and it is proposed to ask the school committees to do the work, the Board supplying the disinfectant. It must be clearly understood that, though the Board is partly paying for disinfection in this instance, it must not be taken as a precedent, as the duty of attending to the cleaning and sanitation of the schools is thrown by law on the school committees, (sec. 4ft, Education Act, 1014). The disinfection of the schools can hardly be effective In preventing the spread of any disease unless the homes are disinfected at the same time." J The report was adopted. |