The story of the prevalence of contagious diseases in school children could be told by a table such as is now in use by New York's department of health:
Prevalence of Contagious Diseases in School Children
(Case rate schools)
| School | General Communicable Diseases 1 | Communicable Diseases of Eye and Skin2 | ||||||||
| Number | Number per 1000 Registered in Schools Inspected | Number found by Inspectors and Nurses | Number per 1000 Registered in Schools Inspected | |||||||
| Found by Inspectors | Reported by Attending Physician | Total | ||||||||
| In School | Among Absentee | |||||||||
| A | ||||||||||
| B | ||||||||||
| C | ||||||||||
| 1 Smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, mumps, and whooping cough; excluded when found. | ||||||||||
| 2 Trachoma and other contagious eye diseases, ringworm, impetigo, scabies, favus, and pediculosis; excluded only for persistent nontreatment. | ||||||||||
Another table shows the following facts for each disease:
Table XIII
Contagious Diseases Found in Schools by Inspectors and Nurses
(Number and disposition of cases)
| General Communicable Diseases | ||||||||
| Diphtheria | Scarlet fever | Measles | Smallpox | Chicken pox | Whooping cough | Mumps | Total | |
| Cases found in school | ||||||||
| Cases excluded from school | ||||||||
| Cases treated in school | ||||||||
| Cases instructed in school or evidence of treatment furnished | ||||||||
| Number of treatments | ||||||||
| Number of instructions | ||||||||