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(V) Provide a long white linen gown (overall) for the
doctor to cover his out-door clothes when he visits his patient,
and facilities for washing his hands before leaving the sick
room. The overall should be hung outside the sheet-covered
door. A bowl of disinfectant containing a 5 per cent Solution
of Lysoform with a nail brush therein, should be supplied
for the doctor to disinfect his hands and nails and
stethoscope after use.
(d) Fresh air is most important and the window sashes
should be regulated in accordance with that view. A small
fire in the grate at all seasons is an aid to ventilation and infected
articles of no value should be at once burned there.
{e) Nurses must avoid as far as possible contact with
other members of the house.
(/) Nurses must wear a washable dress and cover their
hair with a washable cap of ample dimensions, great cleanliness
and frequent ablutions are most necessary in the interests
of the nurse, and disinfectants should be used by her as
a matter of routine when she has attended to her patient.
The use of an anti-septic gargle several times daily and a
nose douche twice daily are recommended.
(g) Nurses must have their meals apart from the family,
All unused food coming from the sick room and from the
nurses must be disinfected and passed down the closet or be
destroyed by fire according to its liquid or solid nature.
Spoons, cups and dishes which have been used by the patient
should be boiled before being returned to the kitchen.
The room should be dusted with damp cloths moistened
with perchloride of mercury I in 2000. The floor should be
washed with a similar solution.
(h) Excreta from the patient must be voided into vessels
containing suitable disinfectants, i.e., completely covered by
carbolic acid 1 in 20, or other chemicals authorised by the
Medical Officer of Health, and when not required for medical
inspection should be discharged into the W.C., in which liquid
disinfectants, which can be obtained at the Public Health
Office, are to be freely poured, and the pan well flushed with
water.