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The definitions which are given, if not exactly orthodox, are fairly in accord with modern views, and are clear, simple, and should be easily understood by any ordinary reader.

Infectious. A disease acquired without any direct contact with a sick person; the infection may be carried by a person in apparent good health, or by any intermediary substance, or by the entrance of a non-immune person into a room, house, or any place of human residence, or occupied as such; where there has been recently any infectious disease, such as Flu, Scarlet Fever, Measles or Small-pox, etc., etc.

Infection. The entrance into the system or body of living disease producing germs, such as by

(a) Droplet infection; bacteria infected minute particles or droplets, ejected by sneezing, coughing, spitting and talking.

(b) Aerial dust particles coated with bacteria.

(c) Mixed, more than one bacterium or organism present in the system, they may enter together or one precede the other.

Contagious. A disease acquired from a direct contact with the sick.