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18
TYPHOID FEVER.
HOW TO DISINFECT
The Stools and Urine should be passed into a Solution of Chloride
of Lime or Carbolic Acid (wine glassful of Carbolic to ¼ pint of Water).
The Stool should be soaked in the above for at least 3 hours before
being thrown away. Any solid lumps in the discharges should be
broken up and well mixed with the Disinfecting solution : for which
purpose two pieces of stick may be used, and the pieces should be
burnt immediately after being used. It is necessary to soak infected
linen in the Solution for at least 4 hours, since the Solution does not
penetrate the whole of the linen for a considereble time.
To Disinfect the Nurse's Hands.—The hands and spaces
under nails must be thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water. Then
the hands soaked in a Solution of Perchloride of Mercury (1 in 1000).
Urinals must be treated in exactly the same way as bed pans, viz.:
Immediately after use the bed pan should be covered and removed,
one pint of Disinfecting Solution should be added to and well mixed
with its contents before they are emptied down the closet. The bed
pan should be finally washed with the Disinfecting Fluid.
In the early part of the year a smoke testing machine, stoppers, etc.,
and a hand cart were purchased. These are in constant use, and the
department is now equipped for testing drains and sanitary appliances.
DRAINAGE.
Sewers laid by the Council.
Uxbridge Road about 271 yards.
Shakespeare Road „ 57 „
Ramsey Road „ 174 „
Church Path ,, 60 „
Spencer and Chaucer Road „ 90 „