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10. Other children in the house must be kept from school and all places
of meeting for a month after the rash haa appeared in the child last
attacked.
11. No other children must, on any account, be allowed to enter the
room, infants especially being excluded.
.12. Where a case of Measles has occurred in a house, a careful outlook
should be kept on the other children for two weeks, so that, on the first
appearance of illness, they may be kept at home and properly treated.
13. On recovery, the child should have a hot bath, which should be
repeated more than once. All clothes worn during the illness should be
carefully washed : bedding, curtains, &c , should be washed and hung out
in the open air for some days. All furniture, floors, and other woodwork
of the room should be washed. The ceiling should be whitewashed, and
the walls distempered, or, if papered, the paper should be cleansed down
with dough, the dough being afterwards burnt. The window curtains
should be removed, and the window left wide open for several days.
Medical Officer of Health.
Precautions against Consumption.
1. Consumption is an infectious, curable disease.
2. The infection, however, never attacks people unless their system is
seriously weakened.
3. Most of those who get Consumption have inherited a special weakness
of the lungs from their parents, but in other cases the system is
weakened by intemperance, want of nourishment, disease, and insanitary
conditions, especially confinement to close unventilated rooms, in damp
houses.
4. The infection is conveyed in two ways:—
(1) By breathing or swallowing infectious particles from the sputa
of consumptive persons. If the sputa becomes dry, the
infection may be inhaled as dust with the air breathed.
(2) By swallowing the milk or meat of tuberculous animals.
5. Consumptive persons should never spit on the floor or into handkerchiefs,
but into a cup containing some disinfectant, or, failing that,
some water. The cup should be frequently emptied down the w.c., and
washed out with boiling water. Disinfectants may be obtained free at the
Borough Health Offices, Maxey Road.
6. If no kind of vessel containing liquid is at hand, small pieces of rag
or paper may be used. These should be burnt as quickly as possible, or
the pieces of paper may be thrown down a water-closet.
7. For those who have to leave home, pocket spittoons may be bought
through any chemist—price, about 3s. 6d,
8. Consumptives should carefully avoid swallowing their own expectoration,
or they may reinfect themselves.
9. Consumptives should avoid kissing altogether.