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workshops, factories, etc., must be kept free from damp, and be well
lighted and ventilated. The rooms occupied by a consumptive person
should contain no unnecessary furniture; and especially curtains, bed
hangings, and clothes hanging about should be avoided as far as possible.
Do not block up the chimney of the bedroom, by closing the register
or otherwise.
Open windows and let in fresh air day and night. But avoid
draughts.
All affections of the lungs should be cured as quickly as possible, as
a congested lung or bronchial tube is in a condition favourable for the
tubercle bacillus to live and propagate.
Cleanliness and good sanitary surroundings are most important for
preventing and also for curing consumption.
Young children should not be allowed to crawl on dirty floors. Their
nails, teeth and mouth should be carefully attended to, and all small
wounds, crusts or scabs properly treated and made to heal.
Rooms, passages and staircases in a consumptive person's home must
be frequently cleansed and kept free from dust, for
Where there is dust there is danger, therefore don't stir up dust.
Wet cleansing of infected rooms is necessary. Use damp tea leaves
when sweeping floors, and then burn the leaves and dust.
Moors should be scrubbed with soft soap.
Use damp dusters to wipe up dust on furniture, carpets, hangings,
ledges of doors, windows, etc. Boil the dusters after use.
Papered walls should be cleansed from time to time with dough.
Carefully burning the crumbs afterwards.
Milk must be boiled for one minute ; or it may be heated in a double
saucepan for at least five minutes after the water boils in the outer saucepan.
Never give uncooked milk to children.
By either method,, the microbes, if present, will be killed.
Meat must be well cooked.
After the death of a consumptive person, or the removal to a fresh