New Zealand Gazette – 1926 – No. 41

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✨ Health Regulations



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Regulations as to Notifiable and Infectious Diseases. (H. 2/40.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of June, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Health Act, 1920, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Fourth Schedule of the Regulations as to Infectious and Notifiable Diseases made under the Health Act, 1920, and gazetted on the third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and doth hereby substitute in lieu thereof the following Schedule :-

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Disease. Period of Exclusion from School of Children suffering from Infectious Disease. (Patients.) Period of Exclusion from School of Children exposed to Infection. (Contacts.)
Diphtheria .. For at least three weeks from the date of onset of the disease and until a certificate is furnished by the medical attendant that the period of isolation prescribed by regulation has been completed 1. If patient treated at home, until disinfection of house has been carried out. 2. If patient removed to hospital, until seven days after disinfection of house subsequent to removal. 3. In either case, until a certificate of clearance has been received from an Inspector.
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) For at least six weeks from the date of onset of the disease and until a certificate is furnished by the medical attendant that the period of isolation prescribed by regulation has been completed Not to be excluded unless the Medical Officer of Health directs.
Enteric Fever (Typhoid Fever, Paratyphoid Fever) For at least six weeks from the date of onset of the disease and until a certificate is furnished by the medical attendant that the period of isolation prescribed by regulation has been completed 1. If patient treated at home, until disinfection of house has been carried out. 2. If patient removed to hospital, until ten days after disinfection of house subsequent to removal. 3. In either case, until a certificate of clearance has been received from an Inspector.
Cerebro-spinal Fever (Cerebro-spinal Meningitis) For at least four weeks from the date of onset of the disease and until a certificate is furnished by the medical attendant that the period of isolation prescribed by regulation has been completed Not to be excluded.
Poliomyelitis (Acute Poliomyelitis, Infantile Paralysis) For at least six weeks from the date of onset of the disease 1. If patient treated at home, until disinfection of house has been carried out. 2. If patient removed to hospital, until fourteen days after disinfection of house subsequent to removal. 3. In either case, until a certificate of clearance has been received from an Inspector.
Encephalitis Lethargica For at least six weeks from the date of onset of the disease Not to be excluded.
Consumption (Phthisis, Pulmonary Tuberculosis) To be excluded only if disease is accompanied by coughing or spitting, or if tubercle bacilli be found in sputum, faucial, or nasal discharges 1. If patient treated at home, until disinfection of house has been carried out. 2. If patient removed to hospital, until eighteen days after disinfection of house subsequent to removal. 3. In either case, until a certificate of clearance has been received from an Inspector.
Smallpox (Variola, including Varioloid, Alastrim) Until every scab has fallen off and all skin lesions have healed 1. If the child has had the disease, not to be excluded except in so far as is provided hereunder in paragraph 3. 2. If the child has not had the disease, until sixteen days from occurrence of last case. 3. If the disease is not epidemic when the first cases occur in a school, all children from the infected home to be excluded from school until sixteen days from occurrence of last case.
Measles (Morbilli) For at least two weeks from the date of the appearance of the rash and until convalescence is satisfactorily established 1. If the child has had the disease, not to be excluded except in so far as is provided hereunder in paragraph 3. 2. If the child has not had the disease, until twenty-one days from occurrence of last case. 3. If the disease is not epidemic when the first cases occur in a school, all children from the infected home to be excluded from school until twenty-one days from occurrence of last case.
German Measles (Rubella) For at least two weeks from the date of the appearance of the rash and until convalescence is satisfactorily established
Whooping-cough Until the characteristic spasmodic cough and the whooping have ceased for at least two weeks; or, in cases of persistent whooping, for not less than six weeks from the commencement of the spasmodic cough


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🏥 Amendment to Regulations as to Notifiable and Infectious Diseases

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
14 June 1926
Health Act, Infectious Diseases, School Exclusion, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Enteric Fever, Cerebro-spinal Fever, Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Consumption, Smallpox, Measles, German Measles, Whooping-cough
  • Charles Fergusson, Governor-General