Wave of Sickness at Conisbrough Schools and Pits

Conisbrough Primary School Managers were told at their meeting last Thursday that pits and schools in Conisbrough and Denaby had been greatly affected by an epidemic of flu.

Mr S Richardson. Education welfare officer, said that at one school Denaby Main infants, 40% of children were absent due to flu or measles.

He gave the following attendance figures for Junior Schools: Morley Place 84%; Station Road 88; Boulder Street 67; Denaby Main 86; and Infant Schools: Weiner 70; Station Road 79: over Street 70: Denaby Main 61

Mr Richardson said it was a long time since the attendance was quite so bad as present.

“It’s the same as the pits” commented Councillor R. H. Shepard who works at Denaby Main colliery.

After accepting Mr Richardson’s report the meeting ended on a gloomier then ever note with comment from the chairman, county ald. Ben Roberts, J. P.

He said: “The weather is causing much of the illness. An expert told me that this cold weather is likely to go on until the end of May.”