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COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
TYPHOID (ENTERIC) FEVER.
HOME CASE.
All cases of "diarrhoea," "severe headache" or "feverishness"
occurring in the household should be immediately reported to your
Medical Attendant. Any suspicious cases can be examined bacteriologically
at the Borough Laboratory, free of charge.
Public Library Books must be taken to the Health 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, and should always wash
their hands and faces and change their shoes and outer clothes before
going off duty. Scrupulous cleanliness is essential. Nurses should
keep their nails short, and should scrub their hands and disinfect them
immediately after attending the patient.
No domestic animal should be allowed to enter the sick room.
A patient suffering from this disease is generally DANGEROUS
TO OTHERS for a period of a fortnight after return to ordinary food.
disinfection.
1.—All soiled linen should be at once placed in a tub of water to
which a handful 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.
2.— Special cups, saucers and spoons should be used for the
patient, and any spare food from the sick room destroyed.
3.—Everything passing from the patient should be received into a
mixture of water and disinfectant, sufficient being used to completely
cover it, and be allowed to stand for half-an-hour before being thrown
away, the vessel being covered with a cloth soaked in the disinfectant.
Nothing coming from the patient must be thrown into the ash-bin, or
upon the surface of the soil, or into the drains without disinfection,