A code of rules for the prevention of infectious & contagious diseases in schools / the Medical Officers of Schools Association.

  • Medical Officers of Schools Association.
Date:
1885
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    but if, on the other hand, doubt exists as to its origin, or the sanitary defect cannot be immediately remedied, then the school should be dismissed at once. 4. Similar objections apply, with some reservations, to the Day schools, breaking up of day schools. If dispersion be carried out at all, it is probably best undertaken at the very earliest period of the outbreak of an epidemic ; after consultation with the Medical Officer of Health, whose knowledge of local conditions will materially aid in arriving at a decision.* 5. If the pupils be sent home, it is necessary to give the It is necessary parents sufficient time to make the needful arrangements for forTs^ok'thil isolating them; they should also be informed by the School pupils. Authorities of the period of incubation of the illness ; and, if possible, the clothes should be disinfected before the pupils leave the school. XXIII.—As it is incumbent on parents and Duty of school ^ authorities. guardians to do all in their power to prevent infectious diseases from entering schools, so it is the duty of School Authorities to take every possible precaution that infectious diseases are not taken by the pupils from the school to their homes. Therefore, if there exist any infectious disease in a school at the end of a term, notices to that effect should be sent to all the parents * The power of a sanitary authority to enforce the closure of a school is contained in the Code of Regulations of the Education Department, Article 98, which prescribes as one of the general conditions requiring to be fulfilled by a public elementary school in order to obtain an annual Parliamentary grant, that the managers must comply with any notice of the sanitary authority of the district in which the school is situated, requiring them for a specified time, with a view to preventing the spread of disease, either to close the school or to exclude the scholar from attendance, subject to an appeal to the [Education] Department, if the managers consider the notice to be unreasonable.''