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DIRECTIONS IN CASE OF ILLNESS.
Place the sick person on the top floor in a light and
airy room ; keep a fire burning, if the weather permit, and
ventilate by opening the window at the top.
A sheet wetted with Carbolic Acid, Chloralum,
Sanitas, or Terebene diluted with water, may be hung in
the doorway. Sprinkle the floor with Chlorinated Soda,
Condy's Fluid, Chloralum or Sanitas, diluted. Place Chloride
of Lime, mixed with water, or Carbolic Acid, or Oil of
Turpentine, in saucers about the room; and, if practicable,
purify the atmosphere by vaporising Condy's Fluid, Chloralum
or Sanitas, by means of a spray apparatus.
Disinfect washable things in Condy's Fluid or
Chloralum diluted, by placing them in a pan or tub kept
ready, and before they leave the room.
Disinfect whatever passes from the sick person (in
typhoid fever especially), by receiving it into a vessel containing
Copperas water (see Disinfectants). Pieces of rag
should be used instead of pocket handkerchiefs, and then
burned. The sick person should spit into a basin containing
a disinfectant.
Disinfect glass, crockery, spoons, &c., with Condy's
Fluid diluted, and cleanse them with hot water before
they are used by other persons.
Food left by the sick person, or that has been in the
sick room, should not be used by others.
Nurse and Doctor only should enter the sick room;
the nurse should wear washable cotton dresses, and change
her clothes (taking a bath if possible) before mingling with
other people or leaving the house: she should wash her
hands frequently, using Carbolic, Sanitas, or Coal-Tar Soap.
SMALL-POX. Vaccination gives great protection
against small-pox, and during epidemics should be done as
soon as possible after birth, at the discretion of the doctor.
Revaccination after twelve years of age is strongly
recommended; it gives nearly complete security against an
attack of small-pox; revaccinated persons moreover, very
rarely die if attacked with small-pox. Parishioners may be
vaccinated or revaccinated gratuitously, at No. 216, Cornwall
Road, Notting Hill, any Monday morning, at 10