RT Journal
A1 Davin JP
T1 AMendment to new york sanitary code —endorsement of health bill by organizations —resolution on prohibition amendment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD February 8
VO 72
IS 6
SP 442
OP 442
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610060056022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610060056022
AB To the Editor: 
    —Among the items of Medical News from New York State and City published in The Journal, February 1, is one relating to an amendment to the Sanitary Code by the State Department of Health making the minimum isolation period for measles "at least five days after the appearance of the rash." For a number of years the New York City Department of Health circularized all those who were reported as suffering from measles to the effect that they could return to school "three days after the appearance of the rash," provided they were free from other symptoms of the disease. Attention being called to this statement, as we thought it was probably a misprint for "disappearance of the rash," a change was made to the effect that sufferers could return to school five days after the appearance of the rash, which is the period of isolation now