Add to ORKG• Superintendant Thompson: “Boston schools will be kept open as a protection to the children themselves. In school they will be under careful attention, with adequate medical assistance always ready, with efficient doctors, nurses, and teachers to look after their health and make a report of any indication of sickness. With the schools closed and the moving picture houses open there is far more menace to their health. Yesterday I observed over 500 children of school age gathered together waiting to get into a movie house, many of them sneezing and coughing. In New York, where the schools were not closed even in the worst of the epidemic, there were fewer cases among school children that [sic] in other places.”Newspaper article