This section is from the book "Housekeeper's Handy Book", by Lucia Millet Baxter. Also available from Amazon: Housekeeper's Handy Book.
Three weeks from the commencement of the disease, if all rash and cough have ceased.
Three weeks from the commencement of the disease, if all swelling has gone down.
Three weeks from the commencement of the disease, if every scab has fallen off.
Four weeks from the commencement, if strength is reestablished.
Six weeks from the commencement, if sore throat and other signs of the disease have disappeared.
Six weeks from the commencement, if every scab has fallen off.
Six weeks from the commencement of the disease, if the nose is not sore and the peeling has ceased.
Six weeks from the commencement of the disease, if strength has returned.
Six weeks from commencement, if cough has ceased.
Diphtheria - twelve days.
Scarlet fever - fourteen days. Smallpox, measles, and chicken pox - eighteen days.
Whooping-cough - twenty-one days. Mumps - twenty-four days.
 
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