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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 121, 7 June 1876, Page 4

PRECAUTIONS' AGAINST THE SPREAD OP TYPHOID PEYiP* Drawn up bv Wiu.iam Ooi.k. -M.A*, AID., Ox on., HR.C.Ih LomffiMedi <-“il Officer of Health for the combined districts of East Herts ; and circulated by tlui Sanitary Authorities. ■ nn YPHOID, enteric, or'gastric fever arts tin' names given to one and the same infectious disease, this being si fever produced by excremcntal poisoning and almost' invariably accompanied by diarrhoea. Of all.excremcntal rnatffir, the most poisonous is-that which comes • 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 poison, may; bo; taken in >by breathing the eflluvia from these.discharges, or from the privy, Cesspool; ior brains .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 lor other objects, and thence been accidentally transferred, to articles of. food l or cooking utensils. ! 1 ''-Destruction of theTevor poison in the stoop,, the moment these leayc'thc hotly, by .means, of disinfectants;* and (inasmuch as tho acfionVof disinfectants is not, thoroughly certain) the safe disposal of the stools themselves,, arc the means )by* which-wbVshould try to’., prevent the disease from spreading. j Let all’persons, therefore, who would keep thefi(selves and their neighbohrs free from'.infection, observe strictly the following-rules si in old the disease occur . in. their houses:, — • i . 1, Remove at once from the sick,l'oonic all 'carpets,, curtains, ■ and other objects likely;to getjjpnlcd.: ; - | 2. Keep every one whose presence is not absolutely: necessary out.of the sick room, ami by’means of • open windows bind open doors give the patient as much ■ fresh air as possible. '/ v ' t 3. Put a piece of 'Waterproof.'sheeting under the bed clothes, in the middle of the bod,.so as to prevent 'the bed from getting soiled. ! -I Put ft. teacupful of tbo -following disinfecting fluid into a bed-pail or oilier vessel each time before the- patient uses it, and add ’ some more 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 iluid 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 arc thoroughly mixed with the disinfecting fluid, and then-carry them immediately into the garden or field, and dairy them in ft'dccp trendi, previously dug,for the purpose, as far as possible from any well or other water supply. On To account lot them be thrown on to a refuse heap. • If tlio house be 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 ploset.be flushed until basin and pan’arc thoroughly clean. . G. Lot 5 bed;and "hotly linen; immediately. it’is taken off/ be put into a tub o’fwatcr, to which carbolic acid has been added, in the proportion of half a pint of acid do,a .bucket of water. Have the tub and fluid ready prepared and at hand before the linen is taken off... Let! the linen" soak in this for' two hours, j and and then-let it be actually boiled in washing, Gu nb accoimt'must the linen bb‘scuff to : a laundress without thorough, previous disinfection, nor without! informing her of its character, so that she ituiy pot wash it with the linen of other persons. .A ; ’ 1 ' AY;;. Let: the nurse;; observe .the mostscrupulous care to keep everything clean. Lot her wear a dress of washing material,. as,, this is. more easily, disinfected than Wool As her hands must almost unavoidably, get. foiled in helping; the patient, let thVm’wash them frequently iuwaterto which some disinfecting fluid has been added, and let her take Ware that'-the* water thus 1 used,: as well as all other slops, ho emptied carefully jinto the garden trench. j ' 8. When the illness is over, the bed if spiled, should be burnt; or the tick or lacking hover may bo 3 disinfected by thorough .boiling, and the Jloek or straw staffing Burnt;. ‘' Should there lie i . a,disinfecting oven.available,thc stuffing of ha if mattrasscs’ inay bo teased out and thou, disinfected by baking at' a' temperhfitrb of 2oOdeg. F. Otherwise 1 this also should he destroyed. i 9. If fever be in your neighbourhood hut not as yet in your house, take the' following precautions to keep it but : —Drink no water that is open to the least suspicion, or,, if you can get no. .other, boil it. before drinking. Use no ” closet ot privy that is used by liuusos in which--.there is already fever. Give immediate notice to the Sanitary,; Inspector of any huisahee in your nejigh, bourhood-,. such.as- a stinking draip or •guilyv heaps of offensive .refuse, and the like. ■ Use all your influence influence o insist upon theprcc.'.wding.preeautions teing strictly'. 'carried out by your beiiighbours whoso bouses.are alrady in--foctedr . -