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"All persons suffering from consumption should expectorate
either into the fire or a vessel containing disinfectants such as
carbolic acid or into rags or paper which should be afterwards
burned. They should especially abstain from expectorating
phlegm or spitting on the floors of houses or vehicles or in public
places.
"The disease may also be contracted by partaking of meat
or milk of tubercular animals, especially of the cow; therefore
all meat should be properly cooked, and all milk, including
condensed milk, boiled before being given to children in every
instance. Milk so treated is as nourishing and palatable as
new milk and it need only be brought to the boiling point for
a minute, prolonged boiling being unnecessary.
"A further mode of contracting the disease is by sleeping in
a room which is, or has been, inhabited by a person suffering from
consumption. Therefore if possible all persons suffering from
this disease should have a separate bedroom, the windows of
which should be kept open as long as possible daily.
"After the death or removal of a person suffering from
consumption the room should be disinfected, the wall paper
stripped and the ceilings whitewashed. Disinfection will be
performed in such cases by the Vestry's Staff, free of charge,
upon application at the Public Health Department, Municipal
Buildings, Town Hall Road, where disinfectants will also be
supplied to the poor, without charge, in cases where the same
cannot otherwise be obtained."
As the result of this handbill, many applications were made to
the Department for disinfection of bedding and premises after
fatal cases of the disease.
Compulsory
Notification
of Phthisis.
In the meantime the Health Committee actively
considered the question of compulsory notification,
and on the 25th January, 1899, the following recommendation
was adopted by the Vestry:—