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thoroughly disinfected. This will be done free of cost
on application to the Medical Officer of Health at the
Town Hall, Stratford. The walls should be afterwards
stripped of paper and the paper burnt, the floors and
woodwork cleansed with soap and water, and all soiled
linen and clothing boiled.
Special Rules for Consumptive persons :—
7. A consumptive person should not swallow his own
tion (phlegm or spit).
8. No person, consumptive or otherwise, should spit about the
house, in cabs, omnibuses, tramcars, railway carriages,
or in public places such as theatres, concerts, meetings,
churches, schools, or upon the footways.
9. Indoors a consumptive person should spit into a special cup
or vessel containing a little water and disinfectant, or
into pieces of paper or rag which should be immediately
burnt. If pocket handkerchiefs are used they must be
put into boiling water before they have time to dry.
Therefore, quite apart from the number of handkerchiefs
required, the special cup saves much time and trouble.
10. Out-of-doors a consumptive person should spit into a special
pocket spittoon, which may be obtained from any
chemist.
11. The collected expectoration should be mixed with an equal
quantity of strong disinfectant before being passed down
the w.c., and the cup or pocket spittoon immediately
washed out in boiling water with strong disinfectant.
12. All cups, spoons, forks, or other articles used by consumptive
persons should be carefully washed before being used by
others, and the remains of food left by a consumptive
should not be used by the healthy.