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Four cases occurred amongst pupils attending Private Schools
in the district, and one child was in attendance at a school outside
the district.
Details as to the proportion of cases isolated in the Fever
Hospital and in their own houses are given on a preceding page
in the report of the Medical Officer of Health, and the usual
precautions are adopted for the quarantine of the infected persons
and those who come in contact with them. Where the case is
nursed at home all the children of the house are excluded from
school until a period of 8 days has elapsed from the time the
patient is free from infection and the premises have been disinfected.
The patient is excluded from school for 3 weeks after he
is certified free of infection and the premises have been disinfected.
Where the case is removed to Hospital the contacts are
excluded from school for 8 days after the removal, and the patient
for 3 weeks after the discharge from the Hospital.
But every case of Scarlet Fever and every contact is
examined before they are allowed to return to school. Last year,
in addition to the actual sufferers from the disease, 107 school
contacts were examined on the expiration of their quarantine and
before they resumed school attendance.