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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2584, 19 July 1882, Page 2

CANTERBURY FORETHOUGHT ASSOOIiTION DEBATING CLASS. A MEETING of the above Clara will take place TO MOBROW (Thursday) EVENING, at 7,30 p.m., at the FEEr - THOUGHT HAUL, -Worcester street, to which the public arc cordlailyluvlted. Business—Election ot officers. Subject for Debate—The Nationalisation of the Land In New Zealand. Admission—Free. 2787 ' DEPOSITS. THE CANTEBBUhY BUILDING SOCIETY (Permanent) is now TAKING A LIMITED AMOUNT ON DEPOSIT FOB FIXED PERIODS, AT ODBRBNT RATES. 2784 EDWD. J. T. FORD, Manager. PERMANENT INVESTMENT AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. | THE Directors are prepared to receive applications for LOANS ot £SO and upwards. H. B. WEBS, Manager. Offices —Hereford street. 2028 THAVE MONEY TO LEND on Freehold Security, and in earns to enit borrowers. JOHN JOYCE, Solicitor, Hereford street, Christchurch.

WINES. PRIZE MEDaL WINES. THE undersigned being licensed to sell New Zealand Wines, have made arrangement: for eupplies direct ' from the, manufacturers of tue famous Wanganui and other grape and fruit wines. Connoisseurs will find these wines equal in quality to some of the best Californian or Australian, a: is evidenced from their having taken Pr.'z . Medals from the Melbourne and New Zealand International Exhibitions. Their cheapness is attributable to their being manufactured in the Colony, and consequently they are exempt from Curtorqs duty. Bold by the glass, 3d; by the dozen, 30s ;or single bottle 3s, by J. P. OLIVER & 00., Wholesale (fruit Dealers, 2569 Colombo street south, Christoharch

CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT BOARD OF HEALTH. INFECT lOU~DISEA3F.S—----CHOLERA, TYPHOID, LOW OS GasTRIC FEVER, SCARLATTI?.', SMALLPOX, DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, TYPHPS FEVER. THE fol'owing PRECAUTIONS for Preventing the Spread of Infections Diseases ere chiefly those RECOMMENDED hy the Society of Medical Officers of Health; hnt it mnst be remberedthat “it is to cleanliness, ventilation, and drainage, and the use of perfectly pure dtinking water, that populations ought me inly to look for safety against disease and infection 1, Immediately yon are informed by your medical attendant that the disease is infections, lose no time in reporting it to the * The Chairman of the Board of Health, Hereford street, Christchurch.” The legal penalty for neglect to report it is a fine not exceeding ten ponnds. 2. Separate the sick person from the rest of the family directly illness appears, placing him, if possible, in a room at the top of the house, and taking care to remove carpets, curtains, and all unnecessary articles of furniture and clothing therefrom, 3. A jmit fresh air by opening the upper sash of the window. The fireplace should be kapt open, and a fire lighted if the weather permits. Fresh air should be freely admitted through the whole house by means of open windows and doors. The more air that passes through the house, the less likely is the disease to spread. 4. H aug up a sheet outside the door of the sick room, and keep it wet with a mixture made either with a quarter of a pint of carbolic acid, or a pound of chloride of lime, and a gallon of •water. 5. Every sink, closet, privy, or house drain should have a quantity of a solution of green copperas, made by dissolving one pound of copperas in a gallon of water, or one of the abovenamed disinfectants, poured into it daily. 6. All cups, glasses, spoons, &o , need by the sick pers-.n should be first washed in the abovenamed solution of carbolic acid, and afterwards in hot water, before being used by any other person. The sweepings of the sick-room should be thrown into the fire and burnt. 7. No article of food should be allowed to remain in the sick room. No food or drink that the sick person has tasted, or that has been in the sick-room, shall be given to any one else. 8. iII bed and body linen, as soon as removed from the sick person, and before being taken from the room, should be placed in water contain two ounces of chloride of lime, or one ounce of carbolic acid to the gallon, and well boiled; afterwards it should be washed in the ordinary way. The clothes should on no account be washed at a common laundry, nor should the water used in washing them be allowed to lie abont the honse. 9 Persons attending on the sick should not wear woollen garments, as they are likely to retain infections poison ; dresses of cotton, or of some washable material, should be worn. Nurses should always wash their bauds immediately after attending the sick person, using carbolic acid soap instead of ordinary soap. 10. it is of the utmost importance that the sick room t* not frequented by others than those in ieJmediate attendance cn the sick, as the clothing of visitors is very liable to carry away infection. TYPHOID FEVER AND CHOLERA.

11. In addition to tho above general precautions, pay especial attention to the following directions, the chief infection in these diseases being contained in the discharges from the bowels: Place in the night stool or pan before the patient uses it, half a pint of one of the disinfectant saltations mentioned in rales 4 and 5. Immediately after nse the pan should bo removed frsm the house, and the contents deeply buried; or should, by arrangement with the nightman, be removed nightly, being for that purpose placed in a special pan. In the case of cholera, discharges from the stomach should bo disinfected in the same way. On no account should the bowel discharges of the sick person be emptied into the closet used by persona in health. The greatest care should be taken to prevent the contamination of well or drinking water by any discharges from the sick person Be very particular that the water you drink is pure and fresh ; if the water be obtained from a spring or surface well it had batter be boiled DIPHTHERIA AND SCARLATINA. 12. Instead of handkerchief, small pieces of rag should be used by the sick person to receive the saliva and discharges from the nose and throat, and, when soiled, should be immediately burnt. Receptacles use! to spit in should contain one rf the above di .infecting solutions. SCARLATINA, MEASLES AND SMALLPOX. 13. the scries and dusty powder which peel from the skin in scarlatina and measles, and the crusts in smallpox, being highly infectious, their escape may be prevented by smearing the body of the sick person all over every day with camphorated oil. This and the after use of warm baths and carbolic acid soap are most essential. The sick person must not be allowed to mix with the rest of the family until this peeling has entirely ceased and tbs skin is perfectly smooth GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOE CARRYING OUT DISINFECTION 14. When the sickness has terminated, the sick room and its contents should be disinfected and cleansed. 'lbis should be done in the following mannerrpread out and hang upon lines all articles of clothing and bedding; well close the fireplace, windows, and all openings ; then take a quarter to half a pound of brimstone, broken into small pieces; pnt them into an iron dish, supported over a pail of boiling water, and set fire to the brimstone by patting some live coals upon it. Close the door, and stop all crevices, and allow the room to remain shut up for twenty-four hours. The rooms should than be freely ventilated by opening the doors and windows, the ceil ng should be whitewashed, the paper stripped from the walls and burnt, and the furniture and all wood and painted work be well wash.-d with soap and water, containing a little chloride of lime. 15. Beds, mattresses, and articles which c snnot well be washed, should, in the absence of a disinfecting chamber, be exposed to the sun iu the open air for two or taree weeks; if much soiled it would be safer to destroy them by fire.

16 Children should not be allowed to attend pchool from a house in which there is infectious disease, as, a though r.ot ill themselves, they are very likely to car y the infection, and so spread the disease. No child should be allowed to reenter a school without a certificate from the medical attendant, stating that ho can do so without any danger of infecting other children 17. la case of death the body should not ho removed from the room, except for burial, unless taken to a mortuary, nor should any sruo'.e be taken from it until disinfected as before directed in Hulo No. 14 lha body should be pnt into a coffin as soon as possible, with a pound or two of carbolic powder. Ihe coffin should he fastened down, and the body buried without anj ’ ’ . By order of the jruer or too COURTNEY NED WILL. M.D 2786 I IN JCil> W 01.17., Medical Officer of Health.