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body and the hair and scalp with soap and water. At the
completion of the ablutions they should be clothed in uninfected
garments from head to foot. Their infected clothing
must be placed in suitable bundles in the sick room for disinfection.
(p) The furniture and floors must be washed after fumigating,
with perchloride of mercury (1 in 1000), or 5 per cent.
carbolic acid, or other chemical authorised by the Medical
Officer of Health, and the whole exposed to plenty of fresh
air and sunlight. When that has been done to the satisfaction
of the Medical Officer of Health, the sick room is ready for
redecoration.
Typhoid Fever.
Enteric Fever comes on gradually as a rule, but the onset
may be sudden, with sickness, fever and prostration. A feeling
of being out of sorts, lack of interest in affairs, indisposition to
work or play, loss of appetite, feverishness, headache, which increases
day by day, perhaps nose bleeding, possibly a look of
heaviness about the face; these are the symptoms during the
first week of the illness.
INSTRUCTIONS.
(1) Put or keep the patient in bed and send for the
doctor. If, when the doctor sees the patient, there be any
suspicion that the illness be Enteric, the case must be treated
as Enteric until the illness has been declared to be otherwise.
If it be intended to remove the patient to hospital, notice must
be delivered to the person in charge at the Public Health
Office and not be deposited in the letter box, as it is only by
this means that prompt removal can be assured. The office
is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. week days, except on Saturday,
when it is open from Q a.m. to 1 p.m. After the above hours
and on Sundays communications must be made to the officer
in charge at the Fire Station.
PATIENTS NURSED AT HOME.
(2) The patient should go to hospital, but where home
treatment is admissable, and that is at the discretion of the