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Hartford, Oct. 5.—In its current campaign to check the epidemic of Spanish influenza, the state department of health does not advocate the closing of either schools or theatres. Instead, it is asking teachers to observe the school children closely and to send home and report all those showing influenza symptoms. Theatre managers are being informed that they must carry out certain orders of the health department. If they do so, theaters will not be closed. In manufacturing centers containing large numbers of tenement houses, representatives of local health departments are being sent to the factories to give one-minute talks on influenza prevention to the employees.The instructions of the state department of health to the school authorities direct the latter to ask teachers to send home any child exhibiting any symptoms fo a cold, and to send the child’s name and address to either the school inspector or the hea.lth officer. The brothers and sisters of such^a child will be kept in school, Dr. Frank T. Black, secretary of the state department of health, saying that inall epidemics affecting schools, fewer children are infected when the schools are kept than when they are closed.“When schools are clcsed, children are apt to play together at aJl hours of the day, whereas when they are in school there is a certain amount of isolation, and when the ventilation of school rooms is properly supervised, ,|pupils are far better off there than at | home,” said Dr. Black.
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Bridgeport Republican Farmer
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Fri, Oct 11, 1918
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