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No domestic animal should he allowed to enter the sick room.
No children should be allowed to visit the infected honse.
A patient suffering from this disease is generally DANGEROUS
TO OTHERS for a period of a fortnight after return to ordinary food.
DISINFECTION.
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 an 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.
4.—Discharges from ear, nose or mouth should be received on a
rag, which should be at once burnt, as also should any dust collected
in the room.
5.—When the patient is free from infection, the Corporation
undertake the disinfection of the sick room, bedding, etc., free of cost.
The accompanying card should be returned when the patient is free
from infection. All utensils from the sick room should be thoroughly
scalded.
Disinfectants are supplied free to home cases once a week on
calling at the Public Health Department, Town Hall, between the hours
of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Saturdays 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.)
A penalty of £5 is attached to the exposure of infected persons and things.