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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 120, 3 June 1876, Page 4

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE SPREAD OF TYPHOID EEYAu Drawn nji hv Wu.i.iam Ourm. M.A-, aM.D., Oxon., F,.1 \.(J .P .L on d., Modi’ ■ cal (Sheer of Health .for the.combined iliiilrirtf; of East Herts ; and circulated I'}' (lie Sanitary Aiitlioi-itii’S. nn yphoid, enteric, or gastric fever . arc tlic names given to one and tlie same infectious disease, this being a fever produced by exeremontal poisoning and almost invariably accompanied by dinrrlnea. Of all cxcrcmcnt-al matter, the most poisonous is that which comes from persons themselves ill with the fever; and it is principally hy means of their stools that the disease spreads from mu' person to another. The poison may lie taken in hy breathing the ellluvia from these din charges, or from the privy,.cesspool, or (trains into which they have been emptied; or by drinking water from wells into which they have soaked ; or hy swallowing particles that have adhered to clothes, bedding or other objects, and ,thence been.accidentally transferred to, articles of food or cooking'utensils, t Destruction of tlio fever poison in the stools, the moment these leave the body, by means of disinfectants, and (inasmuch ,as the action of disinfectants is not -thoroughly certain) the safe disposal of the stools themselves, are the means by which we should try to prevent the disease from spreading. - Let all persons, therefore, who would keep themselves wind their”-neighbours free from; infection, observe strictly the following rules.shnold the disease occur in their houses:— : 1. ■ Remove at once from the sickroom all carpets, curtains, and other objects likely to get fouled. !n.ot absolutely necessary font/, of' 'the sink Loom, and by means 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 ar> to prevent the bad from getting soiled. d. - •f. Put a tea cupful of the folio’,dug disinfecting fluid into ? hwUpan or other 1 vessel each xime’ before the ratiaht np.es .it, and, add some uukg immediately nfter ;—Bode, water, a gallon-; sulphate C-’lren (he., coppu-'s), a. ; (;,mJ : - ’belie .acid (me. common impure kind's. dv.lt a pirit. In propaj in. Si • ■. f . iron should first ] o rS'd i_ • : -;i . - in bomng wA-er, mi-. wm csrooi-e rum Sd wScn the iron is . _w ’ a; th,.-Suid ccjJ. Iv-inond c± ur Ir „1 h' l fa r. poison; k V. ’ md ■ tiurefo-v.: in a .sa.c piece. She . i ■A" ’ ■y jo used e-.wt adjr r>: ir j uj we*/ p. r.'. h- , ] sr • nr e. J.-; --'V'-'-finmi’cct one ■. Uk ri c <>■ c:i garden, so that the. stools must , of ndiy be thrown down, the closet, add g double allowance of (he disin-

; mutant, and take care that the emptying j Oe done without- splashing the Heat, mill liiafc the,closet be flushed until basin and pan are thoroughly "clean.' • ,C. Let lied and body linen, immediately.it js -taken off, be put into a tub of water, to which carbolic aciil lias been added, ' in the proportion r of hall’ a pint ‘of held to a iJuckct “T)f'waiter, Have the , tnbgmd fluid ready prepared and at hand ' before* the linen is tat-on'off.' Let the linen soak in this for two hours, and add then Idled he aetnally 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 that, she may not wash it.with the linen of other persons. , ' " _7>.r Let the nurse the. nvofrt scrupulous care, tq keepfvery t hin.gelea n.. ! Let her gear a dress,of washing material, as this is more: easily disinfected than wool. Asher hands must almost unavoidably get.soiled in helping the patient,. let them .'wash, them frequently in water to which some, disinfect lug fluid has been added, ’and lot her ‘take care that i.the water -thus used, as yed ns/ all, other rslpps, .bo ...emptied carefully, into the garden,.trough.' .. ? , 8. When the illness is' over, the.bed if soiled, should Uedmrnt.por.the tick or 'sUcking cover may be’,, disinfected by thorough '.hqiluig,.,, h'nd,.- tin.- (lock or straw stuffing,hufut. j'nShbuld there, be V-disinfecting pye 11; ayai hi file; 11 1 e stu fll ng of hair mattrasses_..may, J>e teased out ! aitd' .then p disinfected hyp-baking at -a. temperature of ifhOdeg. Jf. ■■■ Otherwise this also shouhl.be destroyed.■ : - ■fl. If fever he ih your .neighbourhood but-not as yet innarOm: bouse, ; take the: following; precautions .to keep, it out;; : —Driiik- no. water; thatiis ope if to the | least suspicion nor,*»if yon eeair: get no J other.! boihit before - drinking. -v Use no i eloset-ot 'privy’ that is- list'd by houses ! in which there is 'already r fever, • Live j immediate notice ;to the Sanitary. In- j specter of any nuisance, in yonr .heigh ! hourbood, such as a stinking .drain or-t gitily, heaps of offensive rOfasefaiul (he i likt', • Use all your“iniincncc.influence 1 o-insist upon the proceeding precautions | teing strictly carried out: by' tour: bp highh< inrs whose houses are nlrady in-