A code of rules for the prevention of infectious & contagious diseases in schools / issued by the Medical Officers of Schools Association.

Date:
1902
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Credit: A code of rules for the prevention of infectious & contagious diseases in schools / issued by the Medical Officers of Schools Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    xxi. When Free from Infection. -— How soon a t t t • i j , . patient may With regard to that most important question, return home 'UTL *iii i . . or to school W hen may a pupil who has had an infectious after having disease go home, or rejoin the school ? ”—the tious disease following are safe rules to adopt, provided patient and clothes have been disinfected. (Vide Appendix C.) A pupil may go home, or rejoin the school,* after :— Chicken-pox ( Varicella).—When every scab Chicken-pox. has fallen off, particular attention being paid to the scalp. Diphtheria.—In no case in less than four weeks, Di phtheria. provided that convalescence is completed, that there is no longer any sore throat, or any abnormal discharge from the throat, nose, ears or eyes, and no albuminuriaf, and that bacterioscopic examin¬ ation of the pharyngeal (or nasal) mucus for the specific bacillus has been attended with negative results; this examination having been made not less than three days after the discontinuance of local antiseptic applications. The periods named in this connection refer to freedom from infection ; and it is obvious that a patient, if free* from infection, might be sent home from school, or leave home for change of air, before his health was so re-established as to justify his resuming work at school. t w^h regard to persistent albuminuria, each case must be judged on its own merits.