…been a very severe epidemic of sickness during the last few months. E.B.

3 February 1913

Miss Hall is absent today, suffering from an influenza cold.

4 February 1913

School had half holiday today for Shrove Tuesday.

5 February 1913

Miss Hall has returned to her duties today.

13 February 1913

Miss Little, the babies' teacher, is absent today owing to having a bad foot.

17 February 1913

Miss Little has returned to her duties today.

20 February 1913 · Ethel J Browne

At ten minutes to 9 this morning, I made a round of all class rooms to read the thermometers. The highest registered 51° the lowest 48°. All windows in every class room were shut. & it was a comparatively mild morning with no frost and no N.E. wind blowing. On frosty & windy mornings the lowest temperature is often only 46°, the highest being only 48° or 49°.

23 February 1913 · Ethel J Browne

A cold, frosty morning, all thermometers only register 45° or 46°. The pipes are only luke warm at 9. a.m. The heating apparatus is always worse on a Monday morning, after the week ends.