Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-11

the registration reported at your meet ing October s. The present member ship, 66S, is E7 less than was reported last month. This decrease is due to removal from the membership list of the children who are quarantined at the Children's Home in the Sawyer district The average membership for October was 651, the average attend ance -617. Seven hundred forty-seven and one-half absences of pupils and l1O eases of tardiness are reported by the teachers, increases of respectively 2S7 1-2 and 76 over similar figures for September. The present report, how ever, covers 8 period of i've weeks while the preceding report was for three weeks. Three hundred seventy seven pupils have had a record of perfect attendance for the month. The Sawyer district school, which was closed with your sanction October 2, because one of the pupils was sick with scarlet fever, was reopened. ex- cept for the children living at the Children's Home. on October 19. In the meantime the school building had been thoroughly fumigated and clean ed. The spread of scarlet fever in the Children's Home has proven the wisdom of our action in closing the school
 Miss Clara Burrill, teacher in the primary room at the Smith street school, is i'll with diphtheria The building is closed and will be funI- gated. It is advisable that the school remain closed for ten days or two weeks.
 diphtheria in the vicinity of Israel Putnam school with considerable con cern. I am pleased to report that the quarantine has been removed from all houses in the vicinity of the school want to strongly recommend the aA ky Hn Snh -0 a. mite rules bearing upon the exclusion from school of children whom the teachers may suspect of having some contagicus or infectious disease, or who live in the same home or the same house with persons who have such disease. This will enable prompt action to be taken by the teacher and will tend to safeguard the other pupils We compel the attendance of children at school in accordance with the laws of the town and state. I believe it is our duty to these children and their parents to protect the health of all pupils by every precautfon. I hope too, that Putnam may adopt a definite system of medical inspection, a meas Ire which is proving it's value in a rapidly growing number of cities and towns of our country.
 In accordance with your vote at the last meeting the old Underwood type- writers at the High school have been replaced win new ones ana two addi- tional new machines purchased This arrangement has supplied us with eight new Underwood machines at a total cost of $130. The remaining equip ment at the High school consists of four machines. all in good condition.
 The annual state teachers eonven- ton was held in Hartford October 23. All the teachers of this town attended the sessions except few to whom gave permission to visit schools and two whom excused because of poor health understand it is the purpose of the State Teachers association to hold it's meetings next year in four will be in eastern Connecticut, at VII lirnantic, Norwich or New London. Such an arrangement would be very much more convenient for Putnam teachers than the one which now pre- vails I question whether the inspira-