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(c) Recovery should be fully established before return
to work.
Persons Nursing Influenza.
(a) The patient should, if possible, occupy a separate
bedroom or a bed screened off from the rest of
the room. This rule should be observed until the
temperature is normal.
(b) The patient should be kept warm.
(c) All curtains and other articles which prevent a free
circulation of the air about the patient's bed should,
as fax as possible, be removed.
(d) Inhalation of the patient's breath should be
avoided.
(e) A handkerchief or other screen should be held before
the mouth and the head should be turned aside
while the patient is coughing or sneezing.
(f) The hand should be washed at once after contact
with the patient.
Workers who are obviously ill should be sent or taken
home at once. Their continuance at work is bad for them
and dangerous to others.
Council Offices, Teddington.
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