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(3). Clothing should be sufficiently warm to enable patients to
stand the necessary amount of fresh air in their living rooms and
bedrooms. In the winter overcoats and wraps are often of more
service in the house and workshop than when taking exercise out of
doors.
(4). The Phlegm coughed up by a consumptive person is
dangevous when dried, because it becomes powdered into dust and is
breathed with the air into the lungs, thus causing fresh infection in
the patient and others. It is therefore dangerous as well as disgusting
to spit on the floors or walls of dwelling houses, public
rooms, or public conveyances.
Consumptives should spit either into pieces of rag or paper,
which should be at once burned, or into a mug containing water.
The vessel should be emptied into the water closet once a day, and
then scalded and recharged with water. Persons with a chronic
cough should take the same precautions.
(5). When out of doors consumptives should spit into a pocket
spittoon or wide-mouthed bottle, well corked. They should never
spit on the pavement, but failing the bottle the next best thing is to
spit straight into one of the street gullies.
(6). Consumptives must not kiss or be kissed on the mouth.
(7). The house must be kept scrupulously clean. When cleansing
the rooms, damp dusters and plenty of wet sawdust or tea leaves
should be used. Boil the dusters. Burn the sawdust or tea leaves.
Any dampness, smells, or unwholesome conditions should be reported
to the Health Visitor. The room will be disinfected when necessary
by the Sanitary Authority.
(8). A handkerchief should be held over the mouth when
coughing. All handkerchiefs must be boiled with a little soda
before being sent to the wash.
(9). A separate bedroom is desirable while there is any cough.
advice to those wishing to avoid the disease.
(1). Consumption is not inherited, and may be avoided even by
those exposed to infection if the general health is good and simple
precautions are taken.
(2). Fresh air by night and by day is essential, both at home
and at your place of business. Warm clothes will help you to make
this pleasant. There is no danger or risk in breathing night air.