PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE SPREAD OF TYPHOID FEVER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 719, 28 January 1876, Page 3

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE SPREAD OF TYPHOID FEVER.

Typhoid, enteric, or gastric fever are names given to one and the same infectious disease, this being a fever produced by excremental poisoning, and almost invariably accompaniel by diarrhoea. Of all excremental matter, the most poisonous is that which tomes from persons themselves ill with the fever; and it is principally by means of their stools that the disease spreads from one person to another. The nois-'n may be taken in by breathing the effluvia from these discharges, or from the orivy, cesspool, or drains into which they have been emptied ; or by drinking water from wells into which they have soaked ; or by swallowing particles that have adhered to clothes, bedding, or other ot jeets, and thence been accidentally transferred to articles of foo 1 or cooking utensils. Destruction of the fev.-r poison in the stools, the moment these leave the body, by means of d : sin f ecta'its, and (inasmuch as ‘ho action of disinfectants is not thoroughly certain) the safe disposal of the stools themsTvea, are the means by which we should try to prevent the disease from spreading. Eet all persons, therefore, who would k“ep themselves and the ! r neighbors free from infection, observe strictly the following rules should the disease occur in their bouses : 1 Remove at once from the sick room ■ll carpe*s, curtains, and other objects like ly to get foule I. 2. Keep every one whose presence is not absolutely necessary out of the room, oid by means of 0., m windows an 1 open loom give the patient as much fresh air as ■ossiblo. 3. Put a niece of waterproof sheeting under the bed clothes, in the middle of the iod. so as to prevent the bed from getting s fil'd. 4. Fu‘ a teaeunfnl of the fo’lowing dis:n f eetmg fluid into a hod-pan or other vessel each time before the patient uses it, md add some more immediately after : 'od.a wate’v .a "nllon ; sulphate of iron (i e..

copper s', a nonnd; ci'Mio anirl (the comtvjon kmdl. half a pint In pre pariiv t L fluid he iron should first lie dissolv cl hy stirrin rin boiling water, amt the ra-Wic aei •a 11 *■! when th • iron is •Unsolved and the fluid cool. Hemunber •■hat cnrho’ie acid is a poison; k op th nryhi-o •hor’fore in a safe place. The sam a fluid may he used widi great ad vat. tine to disiniec 1 - any accumulation of filth, s'da a 5 a'lunQ-ni l 'or eessnoo], Asa gene--i! rn’e two pua-ts will suffice to disinfect one cubic foot of foifl mat er 5. Take care that the discharges are choroutth’v mixed with the disinfecting flnih and then e.ny them immediately into th" oa"dcn nr lie'd. and hnry them in a <leen trench, previously dug tor the purnose as far ns , ossilile from any well needier w.a'er sup-fly On no account let 'lmm he. thrown on to a refuse h“an. If he house h> in a town, anil without a ■ ■a-den, so th it the stools must of necessi'v bo thrown down the eloset, add a double a’lowanee of the d'.sinfectant, and tak >. ore that the emntyiny he 1 "e without snins’do ' the «eet, and that, the closet he n -shed until basin and pan are thoroughly cle vi. hj T e t he 1 and hn'fy linen, immediately it is 'ak»n off. he mi' into a tub of wi'e-, t > wh'ch ca'liod" acid has he m added, in the proportion of ha’f a pint of acil to a bucket o f water. Have the tub an 1 flui 1 raadv nrenared an 1 at hand before the li >e , : s tn’-en off. Le f t’m linen soak in this for ‘■ra hj mrs, an 1 let it he actually hoiled in •vashiny On no account must the linen he smtt.na. lann'lress without thomu hj nrc. •■ion° fliain F e"tion. nor withmit informin'.* hfir of its character, so that she may not r -sh it with 'he li en of other parse s. 7. Let the "ur e ohs ’rve the most sent■anions cam f o keen eve'y'hiug clem. Let '.nr wear a dress of washing ma. f e"ial, as 'his is nice c.asi'v ’isinfpclel than wool \o hcc-hnn's must almost nuavoi 'ahly cc e * aoi’el in hj 'lninc; the P‘tim', let her wash tbmn frcunectlv in water to which smo ’is : nf etiii7 flni 1 has been added, an 1 Jet be" t,ak“ care that 'he water thus use l , a*

■"'ll ns nil other shin?. lie emptie 1 carefuMy in’othe •« rVn trench. <? Wlvm +he Alness in over, Hie lied, i r soi'ch should lie Imrnl; nr Hie tic 1 ! or n .e'.-i-vr Coyer may lie disinfected by tho•oagh Iviitia r. and Mm fl mk or straw stufpintl m>-n*■. Should there he a diiiuf nf in < a-eo available, the stuffing of hairmattr s a s on'’ he tease 1 n']t nn 1 then disinfect d ’ii- lia’rhvr at n temperature of f>so p O l ’>er.v!se this also -h mid lie destroyed. Tli" floor of the s'ck roon nl the lied - r*- e vl and othe-fio'nitnre should bo tlioro’inrhlv SC u’lhed with s ft soap and ear. Kellene.il A'l the ian’eaiao's aril uto ■- sils that have lie»n in use in the siek room shoo'l be well suable 1. The dress worn bv'ho nurse shnnhl bo dlsiofec I, ed with earbelio arid and boiled os directed in the B'vth paragraph. 0 If fever be in your neighborhood, but not ns yet in vnnr house, take the following precautions to keep it nut; Think no water that is open to *h n least suspicion, w. if you eon yet m other, boil it before drinking. Uv no elos't o" p"ivv that is used by houses in which there is already fe-er. Give immediate notice to the Sanitary Tospietnr of any niiisaaei : n von- peigVorhood, such as a. sinking ilrin nr n'ly. Imans ef nlTensivo refuse, and the bite. Use all ynnr influence to insist upon the preceding preeieHops being stric'lv carred nut by ynurneighbors wh iso bouses are already in r cet“d,

Holloway's Pi ls. Stomncb, Live-, and R nve's. ■ There is nnHiin" hj iT. nl in tli’ cnunoaition of these purifying Tills • nothing tint can injure the m i-r. deliiate constitutions. They improve the aupt -e quicken the enrgi s nf the stomach anl liver, and regulate Hie hmve's They th is become the surest safeguards against in di 'cation, mi l Hie safest promoters of Hie bndi's growth ami the mind’s deve’opm nt. Holloway's Pill exert a wholesome altera ivc and tonic action on every in’ernal organ, an I they rem'ate every disordered o- dohi.l ided function, liny are natural and Hieref ve, efficient pipilleri and entree i es Few nohed hy eondi iom f 'he s in mh or d ; ei'i -e apparatus eao w'thatan 1 'lie ncennin'ativo liea'thv i'ffi'icneo oh ainol over th“ v hole frame when those Pil a ore jn icionaly and taken by invalids,