The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21
WARNING ON DISEASE.
State Board of Health Aims To Protect
School Children.

State Board of Health Aims To Protect
School Children.
At a recent meeting of the Maryland
State Board of Health the following
rules were promulgated, being design
ed to aid the board in securing prompt
information about cases of an infec-
tious or contagious character, espec-
tally among school children. The
rules, printed below, are published as
a guide for our readers who are pa
rents and having children attending
the public schools of the county:
Every child absent from school four
days ON account of sickness must on
returning to school present to the
teacher the signed certificate of a
practicing physician that such child
has not been affected with any infec-
tious or contagious disease.
No child from house in which scar
let fever is present shall attend a pub
lie school until after the disease has
disappeared, the house has been dis
infected, all clothing worn during any
period of the disease has been de-
stroyed or disinfected and written no
tice has been given to the teacher or
to the School Board that these con-
citions have been complied with.
Children who have suffered an at
tack of scarlet fever shall be consider
ed well and the house ready for disin-
lection seven days after desquama-
ton is complete.
Children living in house where
scarlet fever is present may be remov-
ed to another house, and after a
period of 10 days may return to school.
Evidence of compliance with these
conditions must be furnished in writ
ing by competent person acquainted
with the facts.
Children from houses where meas
les is present may be admitted to
school upon the same conditions as
are named with respect to scarlet fe-
yer, except that the date of recovery
and the proper time for disinfection
shall be fixed at IA days from the dis
appearance of the rash.
In diphtheria the same regulations
will be observed as in measles or scar
let fever, except that the evidence
that infectiousness is passed shall de-
pend upon negative results of cul-
ture taken from the local area of in
lection, nose or throat, or both, not
less than "a hours after the use of any
antiseptic gargle or application. and
at period not earlier than seven days
from the disappearance of clinical
symptoms.
Children not living in an infected
house who have been exposed to
diphtheria, but have not shown signs
of the disease may be admitted to
school after one negative culture is
taken from both nose and throat.
Written evidence that these condi-
lions have been complied with may
be given by the local health officer OF
by the attending physician.
Children suffering from whooping-
cough shall be excluded from school
so !long as symptoms of the disease
persist. Every child absent from
school on account of whooping-cough
shall, on applying for readmissiOn
present the written certificate of the
attending physician that the cough
has disappeared. Children living in
houses where whooping- cough is
present must be sent home as soon as
the cough is observed, but on presen-
tation of the certificate of a physician
that they are free from whooping-
cough may be readmitted.
Children having chickenpoX are not
admitted to school during any period
of the eruption, nor so long as scales
or crusts remain upon any part of the
body, nor until the clothing worn
during the eruption has been de-
stroyed or disinfected.
Children absent from school OH ac-
count of humps may not be readmit-
ted until one week after the disap-
pearance of all the symptoms, and
shall present the certificate of a
physician that all the symptoms and
signs of mumps have been absent for
a period of not less than seven days.
Children having scabies or itch
upon any part of the body shall not
attend school until the disease has
been cured, and shall, on applying fol
readmission, present the certificate OF
a physician that the disease has been
cured and the clothing worn by the
child either destroyed or disinfected.
Children having ringworm OF the
scalp or of the face shall be excluded
from school until the disease is cured,
and ON applying for readmission shall
present the certificate of physician
that the disease is cured.
Children living in houses where
typhoid fever is present shall not
bring to school any milk or water
from their houses.