Staff and pupils at a Harold Hill school are hoping for the swift return of one of their classmates who was rushed to hospital suffering from meningitis last week.
The four-year-old boy is a member of the reception class at Brookside School, and was diagnosed as suffering from meningococcal septicaemia last Thursday.
Initially his condition was described as ''very poorly'', but following so far successful treatment of the disease at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, he has been moved to a children's ward, and is said to be 'responding well'
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