A DANGER TO HEALTH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 71, 23 March 1916, Page 6

A DANGER TO HEALTH.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. At a meeting of the Education Board a letter was read from Dr. Chesson, district health officer, 6tating that a parent of a child had complained to him of the possibility of his child contracting infectious disease. The child in question had been sent with other children of the district to various houses with tickets to sell on behalf of some patriotic funds. The parent pointed out that in course of doing so the child visited a house where diphtheria was known to exist. Dr. Chesson continued: "I am certainly of opinion that it is inadvisable to send children on such an errand, as they would necessarily, in order to get rid of their tickets" visit any ■part of the district, and, of course, not know whether infectious disease e*isted in any of the premises visited. In this particular instance the parents very careful where tlie child goes in its ordinary life, and it is certainly not right for a school teacher to give such work to children without consulting the parents. In any case, whether parents are consulted or not. at the present time when there is a risk of infantile paralysis or eerebro-epmal fever, and when scarlet fever is known to be so ▼cry prevalent school teachers should lb* instructed not to send children from house to house selling tickets for any purpose whatever." The Board was not impressed, and received the letter.