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they may be visited. Such notice will be accompanied by a copy
of the regulations under which visits can be made.
III. A list of Patients dangerously ill will be sent daily at one
o'clock by the Medical Superintendent to the Gate Porter, to enable
him to answer inquiries.
IV. Visitors are warned that they run great risk in entering
the Hospitals. No one should attempt to enter the Wards of the
Small Pox Hospital without having been previously properly revaccinated,
and if he lives in the house where Small Pox has
occurred, he is urged to apply at once to the Public Vaccinator
(whose address can be obtained from any of the Parish Officers) in
order that the remainder of the occupiers of such house may be
vaccinated.
V. Visitors are advised—
(a) Not to enter any of the Wards when in a weak
state of health, or in an exhausted condition.
(b) To partake of food before entering the Hospitals.
(c) To avoid touching the Patient, or exposing
selves to his breath, or to the emanations from
his skin.
(d) To sit on a chair at the bedside, at some little
distance from the Patient, and not to handle the
bedclothes.
VI. Visitors will be required to wear a wrapper (which will be
provided at the Hospital; to cover their dress when in the Wards,
and to wash their hands and face with carbolic soap and water
before leaving the Hospital, or to use some other mode of disinfection,
at the discretion of the Medical Superintendent.
VII. Visitors are strongly urged not to enter any omnibus,
tramcar, or other public conveyance, immediately after leaving the
Hospitals.
BY ORDER OF THE MANAGERS.
15th December, 1877.
It appears to be the prevailing opinion that the
provision of Infectious Hospital accommodation for all