The Penn's Grove record., 1911-02-10
Board of Education.

The monthly meeting of me Penn's
| Grove Board of Education was held Mon
day evening. President Trmbull pre-
sided with Messrs. Walter Iall, A. j.
Bodine, Simon Cunningham and N. s.
Wood present.
A few current bills ordered paid and
DR.. G. L. Fleming was electd medical
inspector.
Supervisor Warren Ma1ts reorted that
the pupils and teachers hat resumed
work in earnest after four wees suspen-
sion. For the four months ast fall of
1910 the average attendance WIS $40. In
1909 it was $50. The days abundance in
1909 was 26, 976; in 1910, %, "a, a gain o.
1,87O days.
The attendance OH Tuesdy of this
week was 462.
The mid-year examinations as held in
the Sth grade on Monday ant Tuesday
and pupils did creditably, cnsidering
there had been no school for for weeks.
Mr.. Wood, who is a memhr of the
Board OF Health presented tie case Of
compulsory vaccination. As cry few
children have moi been vacchated no
action was to enforce the law. The fol-
lowing is the
VACCINATION AND EPIDEMICLAw.
l2l. A board of education my exclude
from school any teacher or pupil who
shall not have been vaccinaed, unless
such teacher or pupil shall preent a GER
ti6cate signed by a regularl licensed
physician, that such teacherf r pupil is
an unfit subject for v~accinairn. No
teacher or pupil who shall be, member
OF household in which a persol shall be
ill with smallpox, diphtheri, scarle
fever, whooping cough, yellowfever, ty
plus fever cholera, or measle, or of a
household exposed to contagiol as afore-
said, shall attend any public shool dur
ing such illness, nor until the board OF
education shall have been furnihed with
a certificate from the board of ealth, or
from the physician attending sub person,
or from a medical inspector, certifying
that all danger of communicating such
disease by such teacher or npil has
passed.
122. In case any pupil enrlled in a
public school shall be found t o ,e unvac-
cinated, whose parents shall e in the
Judgment of the board of eduation un-
able to pay for the vaccination Of such
pupil the district clerk or secretry of the
board Of education may give to aid pupil
a permit to appear before anyregularly
licensed physician to be vaccinted, and
such physician, on presenting sad permit
with his certificate appended thereto
that the vaccination has been by him
successfully performed, shall receive from
the township, city, incorporated town.
borough or other municipalityin which
said pupil shall reside the sun OF fifty
cents.
1913. Wherever the board of health of
any township, city, incorporated twn, bor-
ough or other municipality shal declare
any epidemic or cause of ill-heath to be
SO injurious or hazardous as tomake it
necessary to close any or all of tie public
schools in such township, city, ncorpor-
ated town, borough or other municipality,
said board shall Immediately serve notice
OH the board OF education OF the the
school district situate in said bwnship,
city, Incorporated town, b%oroughor other
municipality that it is desirable to close
said school or schools. Upon receipt of
such notice such board of educaion may
close the schools under its control, or
such Of them as may be designated by
the board Of health, and SAID scho ols
shall not be reopenei until said boards
education shall be s"t'sfed thst all
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