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If there is on fire you should spit into a cup containing water,
which must be emptied into the drains outside the house, and
then thoroughly cleansed with boiling water before being again
used.
Outside the home you may carry a pocket spittoon charged
with moistened blotting paper. This may be readily obtained at
any chemists. It is essential that the lid should fit tight, and
that the spittoon should be kept clean.
Do not spit into a pocket handkerchief; it is better to spit
over a street gulley than into an ordinary pocket handkerchief.
6. All persons who have a chronic oough and spit should
carry out the above precautions.
7. Consumptives should not kiss on the lips.
The eating utensils which they have used should be at once
thoroughly cleansed before further use.
8. If these precautions are strictly observed a consumptive
person runs 110 risk whatever of infecting others, and adds considerably
to his own chances of recovery.
9. The sleeping room of a consumptive should be kept rigorously
clean. If, by any chance, the pillows or bed clothes have
been soiled with sputum they should be at onoe disinfected by
steam, or washed with boiling water.
Dust should not be allowed to accumulate anywhere in the
bedroom. The room should be kept well aired and the bedroom
window should, whenever possible, be kept slightly open. There
is no reason why one other person should not occupy the same
room, though not the same bed, if the above precautions are
carefully carried out.
10. Persons who have contracted consumption, or who have
a family history of the disease, should not live or sleep in a room
which is damp, crowded, badly lighted, or badly ventilated.
11. It will often happen when a consumptive person's
attention is first called to these rules that a considerable amount
of infective dust will have oollected in the rooms which he has
occupied. These must be carefully disinfected.