| variation of type, and mild cases are often | | not recognized, but are as infectious as | | severe cases. There is frequently no immunity | | from further attacks. | -------------+--------------------------------------------------+ MEASLES | After effects often severe. Period of greatest | | risk of infection three days, before and after | | the rash appears. Great variation in type | | of disease. Dangerous in children under 2 | | years of age. During an outbreak all children | | having a temperature over 99°F. should | | be sent home and the health officer notified. | -------------+--------------------------------------------------+ MEASLES | After effects slight. Regulations strict, | (LIBERTY) | because frequently confused with scarlet fever. | -------------+--------------------------------------------------+ MUMPS | Seldom leaves after effects. Very infectious. | | Inflammation of genital organs of male or | | female may occur. | -------------+--------------------------------------------------+ POLIOMYELITIS| Disease is most communicable in the early | | stages. After effect is paralysis of certain | | muscle groups, transitory or permanent. | | Death is due usually to paralysis of | | respiratory muscles. | -------------+--------------------------------------------------+ SCARLET | Dangerous both during attack and from after | FEVER | effects. Great variation in type of disease. | | Slight attacks are as infectious as severe | | ones. Many mild cases not diagnosed and | | many concealed. A second attack is rare. | | When scarlet fever occurs in a school, all | | cases of sore throat should be sent home and | | health officer notified. Most fatal in | | children under ten years. | -------------+--------------------------------------------------+ SMALLPOX | Peculiarly infectious. When smallpox occurs | | in connection with a school or with any of | | the children's homes all persons exposed | | must be vaccinated or quarantined for a | | period of 20 days. Cases of modified smallpox | | in vaccinated persons, may be, and often | | are, so slight as to escape detection. Fact | | of existence of disease may be concealed. |