The Scourge of the Lurgy
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The Scourge of the Lurgy
CH is decimated!
Run for the hills, for your lives are at risk...do not venture near this site of doom, for surely a great affliction as this will descend upon the unfortunate!
I think there are currently about 300+ people at home due to influenza or suchlike. It started with the ratty juniors and spread upwards. The small ones began dropping last week, and seniors got hit early this week!
Band today (Thursday) consisted of a full instrumental section, and one snare, one tenor and two bass drums!!!!
Marching has been a joke - Mid B marched in threes on Saturday!
Apologies for the exclamation marks, but it really is quite funny in a horrible way.
Run for the hills, for your lives are at risk...do not venture near this site of doom, for surely a great affliction as this will descend upon the unfortunate!
I think there are currently about 300+ people at home due to influenza or suchlike. It started with the ratty juniors and spread upwards. The small ones began dropping last week, and seniors got hit early this week!
Band today (Thursday) consisted of a full instrumental section, and one snare, one tenor and two bass drums!!!!
Marching has been a joke - Mid B marched in threes on Saturday!
Apologies for the exclamation marks, but it really is quite funny in a horrible way.
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Infirmary capacity is not what it used to be, as school policy recommends sending pupils home. It is easier on the school for them to do this. I believe it can still hold 20-30 people, although I'm sure another may be able to provide more accurate information.
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The sicker now only has 2 wards so 20 / 30 people.Richard Ruck wrote:At home??
Out of interest, how many can the infirmary hold these days?
But they do tend to send people home...
Probably a good thing it's a leave weekend coming up!
Darthmaul, I spoke to Dad yesterday and he said that only 185 were ill - had the number increased?
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Re: The Scourge of the Lurgy
Standards must be dropping in the classics department these days. W*nker Todd taught us that decimation was one in ten!darthmaul wrote:CH is decimated!
Run for the hills, for your lives are at risk...do not venture near this site of doom, for surely a great affliction as this will descend upon the unfortunate!
I think there are currently about 300+ people at home due to influenza or suchlike. It started with the ratty juniors and spread upwards. The small ones began dropping last week, and seniors got hit early this week!
Band today (Thursday) consisted of a full instrumental section, and one snare, one tenor and two bass drums!!!!
Marching has been a joke - Mid B marched in threes on Saturday!
Apologies for the exclamation marks, but it really is quite funny in a horrible way.
This epidemic sounds MUCH worse!
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Is this a 'full-bloodied' flu eperdemic ???
Why doesn't the school vaccinate all the pupils in November ?? - No money in the coffers, I suppose !
I can't believe everything stops just for a sniffle. What wimps !
You had to have diptheria or polio with one leg hanging off to get in the sicker in my day !
Why doesn't the school vaccinate all the pupils in November ?? - No money in the coffers, I suppose !
I can't believe everything stops just for a sniffle. What wimps !
You had to have diptheria or polio with one leg hanging off to get in the sicker in my day !
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No - not flu - either a very nasty vomiting bug - or if not that, then an equally nasty sore throat /coldy bug. Fortunately, (??) my daughter had the latter - she says the sickness one`s morphed into the throat one! It takes a lot to keep her off school so it must have been a bad one. And even worse, she missed her RDA community service active! She was definitely very ill!
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according to smeggy, this is why the windows open a different way in maine, they believed that it would make air flow inwards and therefore not carry infection. stupid victorian tw@ts.Great Plum wrote:On my juniors (when there were still 4 wards in the Sicker), Maine B was actually used as an overflow for the Sicker when there was 200 or so off sick...
the schools modern policy of sending flu infected people around the country is not much brighter.
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Spring of '71 (I think) a lot of the school went down with a stomach bug at the end of term. the infirmary was fulll and one of the houses was commandeered for sick folk with healthy folk being shuffled around.
We went home a day late, none of us could move more than 5 yards from a loo.
Very few of 3s were affected, Lil* reckoned it was becasue she poured bleach down the loos every night.
*I cannot believe I remembered her name
We went home a day late, none of us could move more than 5 yards from a loo.
Very few of 3s were affected, Lil* reckoned it was becasue she poured bleach down the loos every night.
*I cannot believe I remembered her name
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