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The most rigid cleanliness should be observed in the sick-room, and a bottle of
the following powerful Cholera Disinfectant should be ready at hand—Corrosive
Sublimate Disinfectant Solution—Half an ounce of corrosive sublimate dissolved
in one fluid ounce of hydrochloric acid and five grains of aniline blue dissolved in
one ounce of wood naphtha, mixed together and made up to twelve ounces by the
addition of water. To be kept in a twelve-ounce blue fluted poison bottle, labelled
poison, with a patent poison cork, and to be carefully guarded and placed above
the reach of children. A twelfth part to be mixed with every quart of water to
make the disinfectant, it should not be further diluted, and must be kept in wooden,
earthenware, or glass vessels, and not be brought into contact with metals. The
disinfectant will be supplied gratuitously upon the written request of the Medical
Attendant.
Every stool or vomit of the patient should be disinfected in the sick-room in an
earthenware pan or basin by mixing with it an equal volume of corrosive sublimate
disinfectant solution, and allowiug it to stand half-an-hour before pouring
it down the water-closet.
Every soiled object that is washable should be placed to soak for several hours
in corrosive sublimate disinfectant solution, in a wooden tub or earthen pan, and
then again be allowed to soak out for several hours in common water before going
to the wash.
Unwashable infected objects, if soiled, should be burnt; if not soiled, should be
disinfected by steam. A van will be dispatched to remove articles to be disinfected
in the Steam Chamber, and bulky articles to be burnt in the Destructor,
upon notice sent to the Health Department, Vestry Hall, Pancras Road, N W.
JOHN F. J. SYKES,
Medical Officer of Health.