Notification: Whenever a case of infectious disease occurs, the health officer or the municipal committee must be informed at once so that timely action may be taken.
Isolation: The person suffering from an infectious disease should be separated from the healthy persons. He should be admitted in the hospital for treatment. The diseased students should not be sent to the school by the mothers till they have fully recovered.
Immunisation: By vaccination or injection the immunity to face the germs is produced in the body. Immunity can be produced even by nutritious food. Even if the germs enter the body they do not succeed in causing the disease easily.
Quarantine Period: It means separation from neighbours and relatives, of the persons who have been in contact with the patient, for a specific length of time equal to the incubation period of that disease. During this period either the persons separated will be cured of the disease or the symptoms of the disease will appear.
Disinfection: It means to destroy the germs by using disinfectants like Lysol, Iodine, Phenyle, Sulphur-Oxide etc. Heat and Sun light are natural disinfectants. In many diseases it is safer to burn the clothes and bedding used by the patient.
