The Medical Inspection of School Children: A Text-book for Medical Officers of Schools, Medical Officers of Health, School Managers and Teachers |
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Page 190 - A child shall not be employed in any occupation likely to be injurious to his life, limb, health, or education, regard being had to his physical condition.
Page 101 - ... kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance...
Page 101 - Any factory, workshop, or workplace (not already under the operation of any general Act for the regulation of factories or bakehouses), not kept in a cleanly state, or not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases vapours dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein that are a nuisance or injurious to health, or so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of those employed therein...
Page 53 - If a school claiming annual grants for the first time has not been open for the whole year (article 13); or, if a school has been closed during the year, under medical authority, on account of a local epidemic...
Page 240 - Department, make such arrangements as they think fit for ascertaining — (a) what children in their district, not being imbecile, and not being merely dull or backward, are defective, that is to say, what children by reason of mental or physical defect are incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary public elementary schools, but are not incapable by reason of such defect of receiving benefit from instruction in such special classes or schools as are in this Act mentioned...
Page 97 - ... to give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house or part thereof requiring him to cleanse and disinfect such house or part thereof and articles within a time specified in such notice.
Page 186 - Act, be employed in any casual employment after nine o'clock at night, from the first day of April to the first day of October, and after seven o'clock at night from the first day of October to the first day of April.
Page 423 - If, by reason of the absence or exclusion of a large number of children, the attendance at a school be greatly reduced, it may be found better to close it altogether. This is especially apt to occur in the case of epidemics of measles, a disease which is very infectious in the early stages, before the characteristic rash has appeared, and while the symptoms resemble those of a common cold.
Page 424 - Act, 1875; but it will often be expedient to in', ite the co-operation of managers of such schools in efforts for securing the public health. Experience shows that they are usually ready to defer to the representations of the authority responsible for the public health of the district. 13.
Page 419 - ... itself to, and be conveyed by. the clothes of a person living in an infected atmosphere, even though the person himself remain unaffected. The same considerations will sometimes make it desirable to prohibit the attendance at school of all children from a particular street or hamlet. In the case of infectious diseases involving little or no danger to life, such as mumps or skin diseases, school interests may be more particularly considered, in such case, however, it will usually be well for the...