In the interval the school-houses had been put in complete
sanitary order, and though the efforts made to amend the general drainage
of the town had been only on a small and tentative scale, it was thought
that the school, if secure on its own premises, might safely be recalled,
in spite of remaining deficiencies outside those limits. But, _tua res
agitur_--the term began with three weeks of watchful quiet, and then the
blow fell again. A boy sickened of the same fever; then, after an
interval of suspense, two or three fresh cases made it clear that this
was no accident. An inspection of the town drainage, ordered by the
authorities, revealed certain permanent sources of danger. It was clear
that the interests of school and town, in matters of hygiene as in
others, were not separable; perhaps the best fruit of the sequel has been
the mutual conviction that those interests are one.
Meanwhile the new illustration of this connection of interests had a
formidable significance for the Uppingham masters. Men looked at one
another as those do who do not like to give a name to their fears.
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