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(6) Non-notifiable Diseases—
The School Management Code has now been modified in regard
to these diseases, and is as follows:—
(1) Children suffering from the following diseases must
be excluded from school for the undermentioned periods:
Measles : For at least one month.
Mumps : For one month.
Chicken-pox: For at least two weeks, or until every
scab has fallen off the scalp or body.
Whooping Cough: For as long as the cough continues,
and not less than five weeks from the commencement of
the whooping.
(2) Children coming from houses in which either measles,
mumps, chicken-pox, or whooping-cough exists must be dealt
with as follows:
(a) Children in schools, other than infants' schools,
who have not had the disease, and all children in infants'
schools must be excluded.
(b) Children in schools, other than infants' schools'
who have had the disease, need not be excluded.
(3) Children living in infected houses and excluded from
school under Section (2) (a) must absent themselves for the
undermentioned periods:
Measles: (1) Children attending other than infant
schools, until the Monday following the expiration of
14 days from the occurrence of the first case.
(2) Children attending infants' schools, until the
Monday following the expiration of 14 days from the
occurrence of the last case.
Mumps: For such time as the Medical Attendant
dealing with the case deems necessary, or, in cases where
there is no Medical Attendant, for three weeks.
Chicken-pox : For two weeks.
Whooping Cough: For two weeks.