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Medical Officer of Health and only permitted where (a)
the Public Health will not suffer, (b) when the patient will run
no risk to life or health by reason of the unsuitability of the
premises for treating infectious and contagious diseases, the
following precautions must be taken:—The sick room should
be on the top floor where it can be readily quarantined. Avoid
all unnecessary articles of furniture—they waste too much
air space. Suitable W.C. accommodation is essential, and
should be within easy reach of the sick room.
(3) Plenty of space, plenty of fresh air, a single high
bedstead with a wire-wove and a hair mattress are necessaries.
There should be a small fire in the grate for ventilation and
for the destruction of infected articles.
(4) Supply a large glass bowl containing 5 per cent.
Lysol in it and a nail brush. After every service to the patient
these articles should be used.
(5) Be most careful to keep the patient's buttocks clean
after every evacuation of the bowels. Wash the parts with
soap and water, use a suitable disinfectant, e.g., 2 per cent.
Lysol, and well dry with a piece of gauze. Burn the gauze,
disinfect the water and place in the W.C., use plenty of disinfectant,
which can be obtained at the Public Health Office,
and well flush the pan.
(6) The sheets must be kept spotless; if they become
stained with the evacuations they must be changed at once.
Discarded bed linen must be placed in 1 in 20 carbolic acid
or other authorised disinfectant, and left to soak for 6 hours.
It napkins or diapers are used they must be treated in the same
way. The nurse must wear white washable oversleeves to
protect the sleeves of her dress which must be removed before
her meals.
(7) All excreta must be passed into disinfectants, i.e.,
carbolic acid 1 in 20, or other chemicals authorised by the
Medical Officer of Health. The motion must be completely
covered by and incorporated with the disinfectant, and there
should be 2 parts disinfectant and 1 part liquid motion. They
must stand for 6 hours before being passed down the W.C,