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Scrupulous personal cleanliness should be practiced. 1 he hands
should always be washed before preparing any infant's food.
All houses should be kept clean and well ventilated- The
windows and doors should be kept open as much as possible. The
floors of the rooms should be scrubbed with soap and water at
frequent intervals, and the walls of closets, passages, and cellars
should be limewashed frequentlv. Closet pans should always be
clean, and back yards frequentlv swilled with water where possible.
Animal and Vegetable Rejuse snould be burned in the kitchen
grate instead †being put into the Dustbin. See that the Ashbin is
regularly emptied.
Nuisances including the prevalence of house flies, should be
reported to the Public Health Department, at once.
formalin poison for flies.
Mix one tablespoonful of formalin in 10 ounces (half-a-pint) of
water or equal parts of milk and water and a little sugar. The formalin
milk mixture should be exposed in shallow plates (a pint will make
sufficient mixture for five or six plates), and by putting a piece of bread
in the middle of the plate it furnishes more space for the flies to alight on
and drink No vessel containing food or liquid should be left uncovered.
The formalin is poison.
The formalin and milk mixture must be placed beyond the reach of
children and care must be taken that no one drinks it.
COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
INFECTIOUS INFLAMMATION OF THF EYES.
This is a condition which, though not dangerous to life, may
have extremely serious results upon the eye-sight of the individual
affected if proper treatment be not obtained.
The earliest signs of the onset are blinking and rubbing of the
eyes (due to the feeling of irritation) and the appearance (generally
at the inner corner of the eye) of a small accumulation of mattery
substance; very often the eyelids are found to be sticking to each
other in the morning so that the eye cannot' be opened until the
matter has been bathed away with tepid water. When the condition
is more advanced, the eye appears blood-shot and often
highly inflamed.
The condition is very infectious, and every effort should be
made to keep the patient separate from other members of the
family, and to keep all articles used by the patient solely for his or
her use. If this be not done, it is certain that the disease will
infect other members of the household.