SCARLET FEVER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 92, 5 June 1877, Page 3

SCARLET FEVER.

Dr Monckton, writing over his own signature in the Western Star, on the 19th instant, says :—A common impression exists that a medical certificate after scarlet fever should be obtained to show that infection need not be feared. As an article of clothing or

bedding, if packed away . will retain the infection property for years, I beg through your columns, to make known the precautions that every family ought to be known to take, before a medical certificate can be other than a guess or pretence. All articles of clothing should be soaked for twelve hours in a tub contaning one part of Condy's fluid to 100 parts of water and afterwards submitted to the influence of scalding water as nearly boiling as possible. The person and especially the hair, ought to be washed, using carbolic soap.. A little iodine, say a drachm, in a tin match box or something equally handy should be kept on a shelf in the house that was infected. Where these precautions are broved to have been taken they are more valuable than medical certificates, and where they are not taken certificate is a delusion and a snare.