scarlet fever ... epidemic of greater severity ... noted in Providence, 1906-1907, when the case fatality rose to 17 per cent as against the prevalent rate of 2 to 6 ... Contacts are held in quarantine for as short a time as five days, and patients are kept in isolation for varying periods up to six weeks ...
p. 1046 of AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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