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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 109, 26 April 1876, Page 4

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE SPREAD OE TYPHOID EEYAh. Drawn np by Wii.uam Ogi.t', M.A*, M.D., 0.v0u., E.R.C.P. Lond., Medi cal Officer of Health fur the combined distriets of East Herts ; ami circulated hy the Sanitary Authorities. rjPA PHD ID, enteric, or gastric fever are the names given to one him] the same infections disease, this being a fever produced hy excremental poisoning and almost invariably accompanied hy diarrhoea. Of all excremental matter, the most poisonous is that which conics hy means of disinfectants, and (inasme.ch as the .action of disinfectants is not thoroughly certain) the sale disposal wf itic stools themselves. are tin, l means hy which we should try to prevent the disease from s](reading. l.ct all person-:, therefore, eho would keep thems"! ves and their neighbours

getting soiled. -!. Put a leacnpfnl of the folhuving disinfecting llniil into a bed-pan nr other vessel each time before the patient uses it, and add some more immediately alter:—Soda water, a gallon ; sulphate of iron (i.e., copperas), a pound : carbolic acid (the common impure kind), halt a pint. in preparing l this iluid the iron should lirsi lo dissolved by stirring in boiling' wat'T, and the carbolic acid

added. Aviicii the iron is dissolved am tlio iluid cool. Remember that carbolh acid is a poison; keep tin‘ mi.xtun therefore in a safe place. The sann ill!id may be used with "Teat advantage to disinfect any accumulation of fi 11!t such as a dung-pit or cesspool. As : general rule two cpiarts will sutliee tc disinfect one cubic foot of foul matter. f>. Take care that the discharges arc thoroughly mixed with the disinfectina linn!, ami then cany tliem immediately into the garden or licit I, and bury them in a deep trench, previously dug for the purpose, as far as possible from any uadi or ul iier water supply. On no account let them be thrown on to a refuse heap. Iflbe house be in a town, ami without a garden, so Hint the stools must of necessity be thrown down the closet, add a double allowance of the disinfectant, and take care that the emptying be done without splashing the seat, and that the closet he Unshed until basin and pan are thoroughly clean. (I. Let bed and body linen, immediately it is taken off, he put into a tub of water, to which carbolic acid has been a doled, in the proportion of half a pint of acid to a bucket of water. II ave the tub and Iluid ready prepared and at hand before the linen is taken off. Let tin; linen soak in this for two hours, and and then let it he actually boiled in washing. On no account must the linen be sent to a laundress without thorough previous disinfection, nor without informing her of its character, so Unit she niiiv not wash it witJi the linen of other

j persons. 7. Let the nurse observe the most: scrupulous care to keep every tiling clean. Let her wear a dress of washing materia!. as tin’s is more easily disinfected than wool. As her hands must almost unavoidably yet soiled in helping the sacking cover may lie disinfected by thorough boiling, and the flock or straw stuffing burnt. Should there he a disinfecting oven available,the sinkingof hair mattrasses may be teased out and then disinfected by baking at a temperature of 250deg. U. Otherwise this also should bo destroyed. 0. If fever be in your neighbourhood lint not as yet in vinir house, take the following precautions to keep) it out : —.Dunk no water that is open to the least suspicion, or, if you can get no oilier, boil it before drinking. Use no closet or privy that is used by houses in which there is already fever. Give immediate notice to the Hanitary Inspector of any nuisance in your neigh bourbood, such as a stinking drain or gully, heaps of offensive refuse, and the like. Us- all your influence influence o insist upon the proceeding precautions Icing strictly carried out by your heinghboui's whose houses arc alrady infected.