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APPENDIX.
COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
SCARLET FEVER OR SCARLATINA.
HOME CASE.
Children from this [house must not attend day or Sunday School
until permission is given by the Medical Officer of Health.
All cases of " sore throat," " lumps in the neck," or of " peeling
skin " occurring in the household are probably scarlatinal and should
be immediately reported to your Medical Attendant. Suspicion should
also be aroused by any sudden attack of illness, especially if beginning
with vomiting.
Public Library Books must be taken to the Public Heath
Department, Town Hall, and no books borrowed until the house has
been disinfected.
If treated at home the patient must be confined to one room, and
no one except the person in charge allowed to enter the room. All
unnecessary furniture should be removed from the sick room forthwith,
and the floor and furniture should be frequently wiped with a damp
cloth. Fresh air must be freely admitted, a fire being lighted if
necessary.
Attendants should wear washable dresses, should wash their hands
immediately after attending the sick person, and should always wash
their hands and faces and change their shoes and outer clothes before
going off duty.
No domestic animal should be allowed to enter the sick room.
No children should be allowed to visit the infected house.
A patient suffering from this disease is generally DANGEROUS
TO OTHERS for six to eight weeks, and must not be allowed to mix
with other people until the Medical Attendant certifies that there is no
danger. There is risk of infection while there is any discharge from
ear or nose, or while the throat remains sore or unhealthy.
DISINFECTION.
i.—All soiled linen should be at once placed in a tub of water to
which ahandful of ordinary washing soda has been added, soaked for
twelve hours, and then boiled in a copper. Materials which cannot
be boiled should be soaked for one hour in liquid disinfectant, and
then washed.