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Disease.	Infection after an attack ceases.	Quarantine required after latest exposure to infection.
Chicken Pox	When every scab has fallen off.	Twenty days.
Diphtheria	Four weeks after the commencement of attack, if no complications.	Twelve days.
German Measles.	Ten days after appearance of the rash.	Twenty days.
Measles	Two weeks after appearance of the rash.	Sixteen days.
Mumps	Three weeks, or one week after disappearance of the swelling.	Twenty-four days.
Ringworm	When examination shows no broken hairs, and no spores.
Scarlet Fever	Six weeks, or when sore throat, albuminuria and desquamation have disappeared.	Ten days.
Small Pox	When every scab has fallen off.	Sixteen days.
Typhus Fever	Four weeks	Fourteen days.
Whooping Cough	Five weeks, or two weeks after cough and whooping have disappeared.	Twenty-one days.
	N.B.—In each case the number of weeks mentioned represents the shortest time.

This table accords with the Code of Rules laid down by the Association of Medical Officers of Schools.