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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 122, 10 June 1876, Page 4

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE SPREAD OR TYPHOID FKYAh Drawn up by TTimmah Ooi.k. M.Ay M.D., (Korn, F.R.C. V. 1 mud., Modi eal Officer of Health fort.be combined districts of East Herts ; aiul circulated by the Sanitary Authorities. rip VP!iOID, enteric, or gastric lover A arc the names given to one and the Same in loot ions disease, this being a fever produced by cxcremental poisoning and almost invariably accompanied by diarrhoea. Of all cxcremental matter, the most poisonous is that which comes from persons themselves ill with the ft ver ; and it is principally by means of their stools that the disease spreads from one person to another. The poison may be. taken in by breathing the efiluvia from these discharges, or from (be privy, cesspool, or drains 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 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 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, arc the means by winch wo should try to prevent the disease from spreading. Let all persons, therefore, who would keep themselves and 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. 2. Keep every one whose presence is not absolutely necessary out of the sick room, and by means of open windows and open doors give the patient as much fresh air as possible. o. Put a piece of waterproof sheeting under the bed clothes, in the middle of the bed, so as to prevent the bed from get hag soiled. !. Put a toaoupful of the following .lisin Anting thud into a hod-pan or other vessej each time before the patient uses it, a.ml add some more immediately after; — Hod a water, a gallon ; sulphate of iron (he., copperas), a pound; carbolic ac- : d (the common inquire kind), bail a pint. In preparing this thud the iron should first bo dissolved by stirring in boiling water, and the carbolic acid added when the iron is dissolved and the tim'd cool. Remember that carbolic acid is a poison; keep the mixture therefore in a' safe place. The same fluid may be 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 far as possible from any well or other water supply. On no account let'tbembe -thrown on to a refuse heap. If the bouse be in a town, and without a garden, so that the stools must of

nccessit}' be thrown down the closet, ;uld si double allowance of the disinfect ant, and take cave that the emptying be done without splashing the seat, and that tiie closet bo flushed until basin and pan are thoroughly clean. 0. Let bed and body linen, innnedialehnit is taken off, be put into a tub of water, to which carbolic acid has been added, in the proportion of half a pint of acid to 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, and and then let it be actually boiled in washing, On no account must the linen bo 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. Let the nurse observe the most scrupulous care to keep everything clean. Let her wear a dress of washing material, as this is more easily disinfected than wool. As her hands must almost unaA'oidably get soiled in helping the patient, let them wash.them frequently in water to which some disinfeotingJlnid has been added, and let her take care that the water thus used, as well as all other slops, bo emptied carefully into the garden trench. 8. When the illness is over, the bed if soiled, should be burnt; or the tick or sacking cover may be disinfected by thorough boiling, and the flock or straw stuffing burnt. Should there be a disinfecting oven available,the stuffing of hair in at trasses may be teased out and then disinfected by baking at a temperature of 2bUdeg. If. Otherwise tliis also should be destroyed. [). If fever be in your .neighbourhood but not as yet in your bouse, take the following precautions to keep it out: —•Diink no water that is open to the [ least suspicion, or, if you can got no other, boil it before drinking. Use no eloset or privy that is used by 'houses, in which there is already fever. Give immediate notice to the Sanitary In- ‘ specter of any nuisance in your neigh ; boarhood, such as a stinking drain' or gnilv, heaps of offensive refuse, and the like. Use all your- influence influence o insist upon the proceeding precatiti ons. tcing strictly earned out by jour beingb hours whose bouses arc akady infected. .