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(i) All swabs or rags, pieces of gauze or dressings, or
any things which contain discharges from the mouth, the
teeth, the ears, the nose, the throat, the lungs, glandular,
mastoid or other abscesses, peelings from the skin, etc., are
best dealt with by being thrown into the fire. The water in
which the patient has been washed should be disinfected and
at once discharged into the W.C.
(i) After use and cleansing place the tongue depressor
and the thermometer in a solution of carbolic acid I in 20
and keep them there until required.
(k) No one except the doctor or nurses can see the patient
unless authorized by the doctor, who will ensure that proper
precautions be taken, and will on no account give such permission
unless the patient's state be so grave as to warrant it.
(/) All washable clothes which have been in contact with
the patient must be steeped for 6 hours in a suitable disinfectant
(i.e., carbolic acid 1 in 20, or other chemical authorised by
the Medical Officer of Health) before being washed.
(m) While cases are being nursed at home the washing
must not be sent to a Public laundry.
(n) Those dwelling in the infected house whose business
brings them in contact with articles of food, or articles of
wearing apparel for the public use, or those who teach children,
must discontinue their callings while occupying the infected
premises. If at the expiration of one week dating from the
last contact they be certified as free from all trace of illness,
they can resume their occupations as public providers on taking
up residence in uninfected premises.
(o) At the removal of the sick person to hospital or at
the termination of the illness, the sick room must be stripped
of wall paper and the Public Health Department will fumigate
the infected premises and disinfect the bedding. The
playthings or books used during the illness must be destroyed.
All books of trifling value and papers and periodicals will be
destroyed.
At the termination of the illness the sick persons and the
attendants should take a hot bath and thoroughly cleanse the