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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 118, 27 May 1876, Page 4

.PKTfiCAXJTrONS;.’AGAINST' THESPUE AD OF TYPHOID FEYJiAv Drawn up by William Ogle. M. Aq 0x0n.,. K.ff.C.P. Load., Modi. cal (bilccr of ilcalth lor I.lm combined .<! istricls of. East .Herts; ami .circulated by the Sanitary Authorities,. r|p YPIIOTD, enteric, or gastric fever A are the names given to one and the same infections disease, this being a fever produced by oxcremontal poisoning and almost invariably accompanied’.by diarrhoea. Of all oxcremontal matter, the most poisonous is that which comes (Vom persons 1 themselves'.ill with the fever ; and it is principally by means of their stools that the : disease spreads from one person to another. 1 The poison may ho taken in by breathing the edluvia from those discharges, or from the privy, cesspool, or drains into which they 1 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 objects, and thence been accidentally transferred to articles of food or cooking- utensils. : Destruction of the fever poison in the stools, the moment those leave the body,; by means of disinfectants, and (inasmuch as the action of disinfectants is not thoroughly certain) the sate disposal of the. stools themselves, are the means by which we should try to prevent the disoasefrom spreading. Let all persons, therefore, who would keep themselves and their neighbours free from infection; observe strictly the following rules id in old the disease occur in their houses: 1. Remove at once from the sickroom alb carpets, curtains, and other objects likely to got.fouled, , 2. Keep every one whoso presence; is not absolutely .riiocossury .out. of the sick' room, a ini by .means.- 4 of open windows and open doors give the patient as much fresh air as possible. 8. .Put a piece of waterproof sheeting under the bed clothes, in the middle' of the bed, so as to'prevent- the bed from getting soiled. ' ; t. Put a toacnpful-of,.the, following dishdcctingfhud into a bed-pan or other vessel each time before;the- patient l uses it, and add some tnove .immediately after ;—Soda water, a gallon ; sulphate of iron (i.e., copperas), a pound; carbolic acid (the common impure kind), half a pint.- In preparing this fluid the iron should first he dissolved by stirring in boiling water, and the carbolic acid added when the iron is dissolved and the fluid cool. Remember that carbolic acid is a poison ; keep the ■mixture therefore in a safe place. The same-fluid-may bo used with great advantage to disinfect any . accumulation of filth, ■such as a, dung-pit or cesspool. As a general rule two quarts will suffice to disinfect one cubic foot of.foul matter. 5. Take care that the discharges are thoroughly mixed with the disinfecting fluid, and then cany them immediately into the garden or field, and bury them in a deep trench, previously dug for the purpose, as faf.as 'possible from any well or oilier water supply. On no account lot them be thrown on to a refuse heap. Ifthe house he in a town,.and without a garden, so that 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 be flushed until basin and pan arc thoroughly clean. G. Let bed 1 and body linen, immediately.it is taken .off, ba put into a tub of water, to which'carbolic acid lias been added, in the proportion of.half a pint of acid to a bucket of water. Have the tul) and fluid ready prepared and at hand before the linen is taV.cn off. Let Rio linen soak in : this for two hours, and and then let it be actually boiled in washing. On no account must iho linen be sent to a laundress without thorough previous disinfection, ; nor without informing her of its character, so that she may not wash it with the linen of other persons. : ' - ■ ; . - 7., Lot the nurse observe the most •scrupulous care to keep everything dean. Let her wear a dress of washing material, as this is more easily disinfected than wool. As her hands must almost unavoidably get soiled in helping the patient, let 'them wash them' 'frequently in water to ! which some disinfecting fluid has been added, and let her take! care that the water .thus used, as wed I as all, other slops, bo emptied carefully, into the garden iron eh. ■ , ' '■ ‘ 8. When the illness is over, the bed ■ if soiled, should bo burnt ; or the tick or sacking cover may be disinfected by 'thorough-'-boiling,- and the., flock or stray stuffing;burnt. Should there be, a disinfecting oven available,the stalling of hair, mattrasses may be ■ teuso'd out and then .disinfected by baking at a temperature of. 2i3odeg v F.. Otherwise this also should be destroyed. ' 9. If fever he in your -neighbourhood but notrus yet in your house, take the following ■ precautions to keep it; out;, • —mink no water that is open to the least suspicion, or, if you can get no other, 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 Sanitary Inspector of any nuisance in your neigh bourhood, such as a stinking drain or gully, heaps of offensive refuse, and the like.* Use all your influence influence o insist upon the proceeding precautions Ringstrictly carried out by your ■knnghbours whose houses are alrady iinfcetoch, „■