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COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Directions as to the Disinfection of Midwives and Maternity Nurses.
No Midwife or Nurse in attendance on a patient suffering from
Puerperal Fever or other infectious illness should visit or attend any
other patient.
Whenever a Midwife or Nurse has been in attendance upon a
patient suffering from Puerperal Fever or from any other illness supposed
or suspected to be infectious, she should conform to the
following methods of disinfection at the conclusion of the case;—
1. All washable clothing should be steeped in water to which a
little soda has been added and then boiled. Gloves" should be boiled.
2. All other clothing should be disinfected at the Public
Disinfecting Station. This will be done free of cost by the Corporation,
Application should be made at the Town Hall.
3. The Nurse's bag should be disinfected by washing thoroughly
inside and out with 1 in 1,000 perchloride of mercury solution.
4. All instruments and nail-brushes should be boiled.
5. A complete bath should be taken, soap being freely used
The nails should be cut short and the hands first scrubbed and then
immersed for five minutes in 1 in 1,000 perchloride of mercury
solution.
Midwives and Nurses should not resume work until they have
satisfied the Corporation that the requirements of the Medical Officer
of Health as regards disinfection and other precautions have been
complied with.
H. MEREDITH RICHARDS, M.D.