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gargle several times daily and a nose douche twice daily are
recommended.
(/) Don't employ handkerchiefs. 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,
or lungs, or elsewhere, 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.
(g) The throat can be inspected with less danger to the
examiner by taking up a position at the side of and overlooking
the patient. Inspection from the front should be conducted
by viewing the throat through a pane. 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.
(h) All unused food coming from the sick room 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 1 in 2,000. The floors should be
washed with a similar solution.
(i) 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.
(j) 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 chemicals authorised by
the Medical Officer of Health) before being washed.
(k) At the removal of the sick person to hospital or at
the termination of the illness, the Public Health Department
will fumigate the infected premises and disinfect the bedding.
Infected clothing must be placed in suitable bundles in the
sick room for removal and disinfection. At the termination of
the illness the patient and nurse should have a bath, well
cleanse the whole of the body with soap, and be clothed in