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DIPHTH E RI A.
Infecfious Disease Notification Act,
1889.
(52 and 53 Vict., c. 72).
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE HACKNEY DISTRICT.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT,
TOWN HALL, HACKNEY,
189
Sir,
A Medical Certificate having been received here stating you have a
case of Diphtheria in your house, I enclose a Post Card which you will
please return to me, as soon as, in the opinion of your Medical Attendant,
Disinfection of the premises should be done, but not before.
If there are any children in the house they must be kept away from
school until your Medical Attendant states they may be safely sent there.
If any business or a school be carried on in the house, please let me
know what it is, in which case the envelope may be marked private, or the
enclosed Post Card may be used.
Yours faithfully,
JOHN W. TRIPE, M.D..
Medical Officer of Health for the
To Hackney District.
N.B.—Instructions to be observed during the course of
a case of Diptheria to prevent the spread of the
disease.
The carpet should be taken up directly the disease is recognised.
Pocket handkerchiefs should not be used for wiping the nose or mouth of
the patient, but rags, which should be burnt. "If handkerchiefs are used,
they should be thrown immediately after use into boiling water, or into
carbolic acid water and afterwards boiled. All expectoration not wiped
away, should be spat into a vessel (spitting pot) containing a small quantity
of carbolic acid and water. Everything taken away from the room should
be put into boiling water immediately. Sheets, &c., and all articles of
clothing worn during the illness should be washed with carbolic soap and
boiled at home.
After recovery and disinfection, the walls should be well wiped down,
the paint work and floor scrubbed twice with carbolic soap or soft soap
and water, and the window afterwards kept open for as long as convenient.
JOHN W. TRIPE, M.D.