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THERE has been since August a slight rise (which was anticipated) in the incidence of an epidemic disease of the nervous system named poliomyelitis (an infection which may sometimes result in ‘infant paralysis’), though up to the present the cases have as a whole appeared singly and widely scattered. The Ministry of Health has, however, received certain inquiries as to the wisdom or expediency of closing residential schools in which such isolated cases may have occurred. The Ministry of Health is definitely of the opinion that the balance of advantage is in favour of not closing a residential school in which poliomyelitis has appeared. If the school be closed, any potential infectiousness of the disease is more widely distributed, and passes beyond such means of supervision and control as are furnished in a well-equipped residential school conducted on hygienic lines.
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Epidemic Diseases in Residential Schools. Nature 130, 659 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130659c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130659c0