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The Scourge of the Lurgy
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:45 pm
by darthmaul
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:47 pm
by Richard Ruck
At home??
Out of interest, how many can the infirmary hold these days?
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:20 pm
by darthmaul
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:26 pm
by Great Plum
Richard Ruck wrote:At home??
Out of interest, how many can the infirmary hold these days?
The sicker now only has 2 wards so 20 / 30 people.
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?
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:30 pm
by darthmaul
I've been misinformed?
Undoubtedly my sources have been compromised. It shall be dealt with.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:55 pm
by Mrs C.
I`d heard about 200 - tuck shop was empty on Saturday as the majority of our regulars are juniors and were ill. A bit busier today though.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:56 pm
by Archie Pelago
My info was just over 200 at last count...
No corroboration really...
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:57 pm
by Mrs C.
about 200 it is then!!!
Re: The Scourge of the Lurgy
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:21 pm
by mr tall
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.
Standards must be dropping in the classics department these days. W*nker Todd taught us that decimation was one in ten!
This epidemic sounds MUCH worse!
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:08 pm
by Great Plum
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...
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:15 pm
by ben ashton
i remember that. got an longer half term(?) by going home early
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:18 pm
by J.R.
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 !
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:03 pm
by Mrs C.
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!
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:23 am
by Hendrik
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...
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.
the schools modern policy of sending flu infected people around the country is not much brighter.
Edit: JT, you really must improve the censor. ***** should have five asterisks, not four, it being the plural and all.
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:48 am
by englishangel
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