About third day | particles |school or with any |a _red rash_ of _shotlike | of skin |of the children's |pimples_, felt below the skin,| or scabs. |homes, an endeavor |and seen first about the | |should be made to |_face_ and _wrists. Spots | |have all persons |develop_ in _two days_, then | |over seven years |form _little blisters_, and | |of age |in other two days become | |revaccinated. |_yellowish_ and filled with | | |matter. _Scabs_ then form, | |Cases of modified |and these fall off about | |smallpox--in |the fourteenth day. | |vaccinated | | |persons--may be, | | |and often are, so | | |slight as to | | |escape detection. | | |Fact of existence | | |of disease may be | | |concealed. Mild | | |or modified | | |smallpox as | | |infectious as | | |severe type. -----------+------------------------------+------------+----------------- =In the following diseases only the affected child is excluded= =Erysipelas.= Child should not | =Ringworm on Scalp.= Child should return till all swelling and | be excluded till cured. Very peeling of skin has disappeared. | difficult to cure and often takes | a very long time. =Ophthalmia.= Child should not | return till all traces have | =Phthisis= (=Consumption=). If in disappeared. | advanced stage and coughing much | _or spitting_, child should be =Scabies or Itch.= Child should be | excluded. (Infection from breath excluded until cured. | and dried spit floating in the air | as dust.) =Ringworm on Skin.= Child should be | excluded till cured. This takes | =Impetigo= (=Contagious Sore=). only a few days if properly | Child should be excluded until treated. | cured. A week or ten days should | suffice. =A. BROWN RITCHIE=, _Medical Officer to Education Committee_.