§ Mr. DAVITTOn behalf of the honourable Member for East Mayo I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether he will ascertain the loss in grant to schools in Clifton and Bristol recently affected in attendance by an epidemic of measles; and whether a Return of such cases will be accepted without medical certificates, seeing that poor people often do not call in medical aid in cases of measles?
§ SIR J. GORSTIf any school applies for the special grant the Education Department will favourably consider the application. Medical certificates for individual children are not required. The managers have only to satisfy the Department that they have acted under a notice of the sanitary authority, or under the advice of a qualified medical practitioner.