The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-08-31
CITY SCHOOLS OPEN
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9
Special Exams Friday-Vaceinatior
In Order-Teachers Permanent
" Located-Reception Sept. Is


day, September 9, and Superintend-
ent Fulp says special examination
for those pupils of the city schools,
who for any reason failed to take the
final examination last session or who
wish second trial on any examina-
tion which they failed to pass, will
be held Friday morning at 10
o'clock in the high school building
on Greenville street.
Vaccination In Order.
Sec. 4 of Act 434 passed by the
General Assembly of South Carolina
reads:
''No superintendent of any insti-
tuition of learning, and no school
board or principal of any school in
this State shall admit as pupil any
child or person who cannot produce
satisfactory evidence of having been
vaccinated so often as the ordinance
of the city or town in which the
school is located, or if not located
within the city or town, so often as
the rules and regulations, Of the state
Board of Health may direct" !
Section 6 of the same act states:
"Any officer or person who shall
fail, or neglect or refuse to comply
with any provision Of this Act appli-
cable to such officer or person., shall
he guilty Of a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction thereof in a court Of
competent jurisdiction, shall be fined
in the sum of one hundred dollars or
he imprisoned for thirty days"
The only child exempted is one
who hols certificate from a reputa-
BILE physician stating that vaccina-
ton would be dangerous to the
child's health. >.
Superintendent Fulp states that
he has already been warned by the
State Board of Health, as also Mr..
w. M. Barnwell, chairman of the
local board of trustees, and that it
is beyond their power to admit any
pupil of the schools who has not been
successfully vaccinated or else holds
a physicians certificate exempting
him from vaccination. ....
The law requires that children
shall be vaccinated three times: dur
ing the first, sixth and fifteenth years
of the age of the children. :, 'N[.
Last session one pupil whose mother
had been notified not less than three
time by the teacher 10 have the
child vaccinated, contracted small
pox. No case developed among those
who had been successfully vaccina-
ted.
It may be well to note that parents
who refuse to have their children
vaccinated as required by law, except
in exempted cases, are liable to suf-
fer the same fine and imprisonment
as applies to the trustees and super
intendent of the schools. .,
Therefore children, VINO have not
recently filed certificates of vaccina-
ton with their teachers will
bring the certificates to school
on the morning of September 9 or
else they cannot be enrolled.
An accurate record has been kept
in the superintendent Office of all
certificates, with dates Of vaccina-
tion, for the past two sessions.
Teachers Pleasantly Located
The out of town teachers have all
been placed in delightful homes for
the coming session. The school au-
thorities anticipated generous well
come for these teachers who are to
live among us for the next nine
months.
Misses Gladys Norris and Frances
DeLorme will be with Mrs. A. o.
Roche, Misses Eva West and Sue
Porter with Mrs. James A. Hill,
Misses Helen Turner and Alice
Pugh with Mrs. Henry Hill, Misses
Hunt, Cleo Murphy, Georgia Ott,
Thelma OFT with Mrs. L. W. Tutt,
Miss Clyde Smith with Mrs. P. A..
Cheatham, Misses Harriet Coan and
Lila B. Ketchin with Mrs. J. C..