No furniture, wearing apparel, or other articles ex-
posed to the infection from diseases mentioned as dangerous
to the public health (Rule 1) shall be removed, sold, or
given away without having been thoroughly disinfected.
No child or other person suffering or convalescent
from any of the diseases mentioned in Rule 1 shall be
permitted to attend any public, private, parochial, Sunday
or other school in the City of Springfield without a written
permit from the Board of Health.
Children afflicted with ringworm, scabies, or impetigo
contagiosa will be excluded from school by the medical in-
spectors of schools until such time as the disease is cured
or shows evidence of such treatment as not to be liable
to cause infection of other children.
shall only be readmitted upon the written approval of the
medical inspector
All children or other persons exposed to the infection
of the following diseases shall be excluded from school
for the following periods dated from the latest exposure
to such infection:-
Rule 10
Rule 11
Rule 12
Cases so excluded
Rule 13
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14 days
Mumps, 14 days
Scarlet Fever, 8 days
Whooping Cough, 14 days
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Chicken Pox, 14 days
Diphtheria, 8 days
Measles, 14 days
The minimum periods of isolation for the diseases
mentioned in Rule 13 shall be as follows, reckoned from
the date of notification given to the Board of Health:-
Anterior Poliomyelitis 28 days.
Chicken Pox 15 days and thereafter until all scabs
have fallen off.
Diphtheria 15 days and thereafter until two successive
negative cultures have been obtained from the site of the
disease, secured at least 24 hours apart. When the at-
tending physician has secured a negative culture for release,
the procuring of subsequent cultures and final discharge of
the patient shall be under the direction of the Board of
Health
Measles 21 days and thereafter until all catarrhal symp-
Rule 14
toms have ce days and thereafter until all glandular swel-
Mumps
ling has disappeared.
Scarlet Fever 42 days and thereafter until desqua-
mation is complete and all discharges
membranes have stopped
Whooping Cough 35 days and thereafter until all
spasmodic cough and whooping have ceased.
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