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2.—No articles of bedding or clothing should be removed from the room until disinfected
as formerly stated.
3.—In washing the body, Carbolic Acid (a dessert-spoonful to the gallon of water) should be
used.
4.—The body should be put into the coffin as soon as possible, with a disinfectant.
Carbolic Powder may be used, sprinkled freely underneath and over the corpse, or
rags soaked in strong Carbolic Acid may be laid beneath it and over it (beneath the
clothing). The coffin should be screwed down and the body buried within
48 hours.
N.B.—Disinfectants may be bought of any Druggist, or may be had
gratis at the Vestry Hall, by those who cannot afford to buy them.
All Clothing, Bedding, &c., is disinfected free of charge.
SHOULD RECOVERY TAKE PLACE.
1.—Warm baths with soap should be used repeatedly until all roughness of the skin
has disappeared; a little Carbolic Acid added renders the washing more effective for
disinfection.
2.—Until all roughness of the skin has disappeared, the person should not be allowed to
mix with the rest of the family, and then only in new clothes or in clothes which have
been thoroughly disinfected.
DISINFECTION OF A ROOM AFTER SCARLET FEVER, SMALL-POX,
OR OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The infection hangs about a room or house for a very long time, and is difficult to dislodge
Fumigation with Sulphur, however, may be employed by any one, and must first be
carried out. A pound of Brimstone, broken into small pieces, should be put into an
iron dish (or the lid of an iron saucepan turned upside down) supported by a pair of
tongs over a bucket of water. The fireplace and outer openings, such as the crevices of
the windows, are then to be closed by pasting paper over them, and a shovelful of live
coals is to be put upon the brimstone. The door is then to be quickly shut, the
crevices pasted up with paper, and the room kept closed for five or six hours. Articles
of clothing hung up loosely, and beds, bedding and other things left uncovered in the
room are fumigated at the same time. The paper on the walls must then, in every
instance, be wetted with Carbolic Acid, or Sanitas, stripped off and burned; and the
walls, ceilings, paint and floors must be well washed with a solution of Carbolic Acid
or Sanitas. After this a thorough cleaning should be made; everything that can
should be washed with a little Carbolic Acid, or Sanitas, in the water and boiled. The
ceiling of the room should then be whitewashed. Anything short of this is not a proper
disinfection; but the room may afterwards, when possible, be left unoccupied, with the
windows open, for a week or a fortnight with great advantage.
N.B.—The Disinfection will be best carried out by the Vestry; when
it is done by the head of the family a Certificate from the Medical
Attendant will be required.