A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the former Bucks County Gazette. This week’s entry comes from the February 7, 1913 edition of the newspaper.
Measles Topic At School Board
The members of the Bristol School Board all of whom were present with the exceptions of Messers. Booz and Barrett spent most of the time of the monthly session on Wednesday evening discussing the epidemic of measles, which has broken out among public school children, especially in the Fifth ward.
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Sixteen cases in the Jefferson avenue school were reported by the superintendent Miss Baggs, and one room in that building has been temporarily closed.
Dr. LeCompte, chairman of the Health and Sanitation Committee, wanted to know if it was the desire be board to strictly enforce the law written in the new code. The board was of the opinion that the law adhered to.
The code provides that no child suffering with mumps, measles, or chicken pox or residing in the premises with any person suffering therefrom shall be permitted to attend any school, and the teachers are required to exclude such children from he schools; such exclusion to continue during a quarantine period of twenty-one days, and until the said quarantine is removed and the premises disinfected. Any child who may have been exposed to the disease to an outbreak thereof in the premises where he or she resides, but who shall not have developed the same, may be admitted into the schools after taking disinfecting bath and putting on disinfected clothing and taking up residence in other premises occupied exclusively by adults, after fourteen days of removal.
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