Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — Preventing Contagion in the Schools. [ARTICLE]

Preventing Contagion in the Schools.

In London, the medical officers of school associations having drawn up a Code of rules for the prevention of contagious and infectious diseases it\ schools,the following rules are indorsed, provided patient and clothing are thoroughly disinfected: “A pupil may go home, or rejoin the school, after scarlet-fever, in not less than six weeks from the date of the rash, if desquamation have completely ceased, and there be no appearance of sore throat; measles, in not less than three weeks from the date of the rash, if all desquamation and cough have ceased; German measles (Botheln, or epidemic roseola), in two or three weeks, the exact time depending upon the nature of the attack; small-pox and chicken-pox, when every scab has fallen off; mumps in four weeks from the commencement, if all swelling has subsided; whoopingcough, after six weeks from the commencement of the whooping, provided the characteristic spasmodic cough and the whooping have ceased, or earlier, if all cough has completely passed away; diphtheria, in not less than three weeks, when convalescence is completed, there being no longer any form of sore throat, or any kind of discharge from the throat, nose, eyes, ears, etc., and no albuminuria.” Dr. Foote’s Health Mon t h ly.