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Chicken-Pox, for at least two weeks, and until
every scab has fallen off the body and scalp.
Mumps, for at least three weeks.
5. Children living in infected houses, and excluded from school
under Rule 3, must be excluded for like periods, except
in the case of whooping cough, for which the period
need only be four weeks.
6. A daily list of new cases of infectious diseases that have come
under the notice of the school teachers or attendance
officers shall be sent by them, either by telephone or on
a form to be supplied, to the Medical Officer of Health,
who will in turn notify the head teachers as to when the
children affected may resume school attendance.
The scheme which I have laid before you does not pretend to
be a panacea for the eradication of infectious diseases from the
schools, but while it is designed as far as possible to fit in with
existing educational conditions, it is at the same time based on our
most recent knowledge of these diseases, and will tend to improve
the position of the schools, not only in the matter of diminished
prevalence of communicable disease, but also in that of increased
average attendance.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
A. W. J. MacFADDEN,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall.
February, 1906.