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floors should be sprinkled with tea leaves or wet sawdust before
sweeping, in order to avoid raising the dust, and the sweepings
should he immediately burnt.
The rooms occupied by consumptive persons should be
kept scrupulously clean, and when vacated by the removal of a
patient or by death, should be thoroughly disinfected, cleansed,
whitewashed and re-papered; all articles of bedding, clothing,
carpets, &c., should be disinfected as after other infectious
diseases.
Disinfection is done free of cost on application to the
Public Health Department, at the Vestry Hall, City Road.
Lastly, it should be well understood that although Consumption
is an infectious disease, it is not only preventable
but curable in some of its stages and capable of relief in all.
Further, a consumptive patient is rendered perfectly harmless to
others if the foregoing precautions are thoroughly observed.
G. E. YARROW,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Vestry Hall,
City Road.
July, 1899.