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Contagious and Eruptive Diseases

It will often relieve a mother's anxiety to know how long after a child has been exposed to a contagious disease there is danger that the disease has been contracted. The following table gives the period of incubation or anxious period and other information concerning the more important diseases. Disease.

Symptoms usually Anxious period Patient is Infectious. appear. ranges from. within 14 days 10-18 days Until all scabs have fallen off * Until scaling and cough have ceased. 14 days from commencement.

Chicken-pox Diptheria ،، " 2 66 2-5 14 days after disappearance of membrane.

Measles Mumps Rötheln " " 14 10-14 66 66 6: 10-22 16-24 66 " 66 14 12-20 66 Scarlet fever. " 66 4 66 I-7 " Small-pox...... 66 12-17 66 66 Typhoid fever. " 66 II 1-14 1-28 66 Whooping-cough " " 10-14 days from commencement.

Until all scaling has ceased.

Until all scabs have fallen off.

Until diarrhœa ceases. †Six weeks from beginning to whoop. * In measles the patient is infectious three days before the eruption appears. † In whooping-cough the patient is infectious during the primary cough, which may be three weeks before the whooping begins.

SUFFOCATION.

The treatment for drowning and suffocation from gas, etc., is the same as for drowning. First, restore breathing; second, promote warmth and circulation. MISCELLANEOUS.