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Persons pronounced to be suffering from influenza should submit to bo nursed
under medical advice and remain secluded in a warm room until recovery.
Persons suspected of being infected for, their own safety's sake should studiously
avoid exposing themselves to cold and fatigue in the open. For the safety of others,
they should avoid breathing or coughing into the face of other persons, and carefully
retain all discharges from the mouth, nose, or eyes, in handkerchiefs, clothes,
or rags, which should be changed several times a day, and, when soiled, be either
cast into water and boiled for half-an-hour, or else burnt. The linen should be well
boiled, wearing apparel and furniture stuffs should be well aired,after having been
brushed, shaken, or beaten in a close room, and the dust collected and burnt. The
interior of rooms should be ventilated without draught, and, in the absence of the
sufferer, fully aired.
All surfaces of floors, furniture, walls, and ceilings, should be well cleansed, and
soap and water should not be spared.
Healthy persons, even in the open air, should exercise great care not to inhale
the breath of others, especially of those who cough, hawk, or spit. Similar precautions
should be exercised in public halls, rooms, vehicles, or other close public
structures, resisting crowding together, and insisting upon pure ventilation and
cleanliness. The rooms and homes of relatives and friends infected with the
disease should be avoided, and kissing and embracing should be dispensed with as
much as possible. The general health should be maintained by personal cleanliness,
temperate habits, nourishing food, warmth of clothing and dwelling, and by
avoiding chills, fatigue, and depressing emotions.
Influenza is not a notifiable disease under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and therefore, although a dangerous infectious disease, it is not in the
power of Sanitary Authorities to apply to it measures of isolation and disinfection.
TUBERCULAR DISEASES.