Boughrood
National School
National School
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Three more examples of the effect of illness on the numbers of children turning up for lessons at local schools in the Victorian years are shown here... |
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Boughrood
National School |
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| 2nd November 1896 - "...Many of the children are coughing dreadfully all day. I have used "S" in all cases of sickness, in marking the registers this morning". |
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Hay
British
Infants School |
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| 1st December 1882 - "28 children absent this week through illness. Average attendance for week 20.4". |
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Llyswen
National School |
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January
26th 1883 -
"Whooping cough is daily spreading more and
more - only 18 in school today". Sadly, examples like these turn up regularly in the official records of almost all schools in these years. And because serious diseases were so common, some children did not return to school after an epidemic... When diseases could be killers...
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