| |smallpox as
| | |infectious as
| | |severe type.
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=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_.

Most people still think that colds are due to cold air or draughts
rather than to a cold germ, which finds a body unequipped with
resisting power, with its germ police off guard, exhausted from
overwork, or disaffected and ready to turn traitor if the enemy seems
stronger than our vitality. Sometimes it seems as if we contracted it
from a sneezing fellow-passenger, sometimes from a draught from an open
car window. An uninformed opponent of the theory that colds are a germ
disease wrote the following letter last winter to a New York newspaper:

In addition to the Society for the Suppression of Noises there
should be in this town a Society for the Suppression of
"Fresh-Air" Fiends. The newspapers report an epidemic of
pneumonia, grippe, and colds. It is almost entirely due to the
fact that the average New Yorker is compelled to live, move, and
have his being from daylight to midnight in a succession of
draughts of cold air caused by the insanity of overfed male and
female hogs, who, with blood almost bursting through their skins,
demand "fre