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other children or attend school until a further period of two
weeks has passed.
Care should be taken in small rooms not to expose the
patient to a draught.
The most serious complication in Measles is inflammation of
the lungs, so that when shortness of the breath arises the attention
of the Medical man should be called to it.
Prevention.—All plates, cups, glasses, spoons, &c., used in the room,
should be kept entirely for the sick room until the illness is
over. Any article of food or drink, and especially milk that
has once been in the sick room, should never be consumed by
other persons, but should be thrown away if not wanted by the
patient.
All articles of linen taken from the bed or patient, should
be put into disinfectant in the room, and should remain there
for three or four hours before being washed. Boiling the clothes
is the most eSectual way of destroying any infection. Blankets
and woollen articles which cannot be boiled, when taken out of
the disinfectant, should be washed and exposed for some time in
the open air. Infected clothing on no account should be washed
with any that has not been exposed to disinfection.
The floor of the room should be washed at frequent intervals
with a weak solution of chloride of lime, or other equally
effective disinfectant, which will be supplied on application at
the Public Health Office.
Every room of the house should be well ventilated, the
windows of bedrooms being left slightly open during the night.
Every part of the house should be kept in a scrupulously clean
condition.
During the illness, the children living in the house should
not be allowed to attend either Sunday or day schools. As soon
as the disease has terminated, information of the fact must be
given to the Medical Officer of Health, at the Town Hall, in order
that the necessary steps may be taken to have the house
disinfected.
GEORGE MILLSON,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Office,
Town Hall, Walwokth Road, S.E.