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7. All glasses, cups, and other vessels, used by or about the patient, are
to be scrupulously cleaned before being used by others.
8. The discharges from the bowels and bladder are to be received on their
very first issue from the lody, into vessels charged with disinfectants.
9. About the fourth day after the eruption, the surface of the body, scalp
included, is to be anointed twice a day with olive oil, slightly impregnated with
camphor; the oiling to he continued until the patient is well enough to take
a warm bath, in which the whole skin is to be well scrubbed, disinfecting
soap being abundantly used. The bath should be repeated every other day
until four have been taken.
10. Ten days after health has been quite re-established, the patient may,
in new clothes, without risk, re-enter his family.
11. The children of the poor, who have no means of isolating their
children, are to be treated in small model hospitals or houses set apart by
towns or parishes for the purpose.
12. The sewers are to be kept in a state of permanent disinfection where
the disease prevails. This is done in Bristol, under the direction of the
Health Officer.
PUBLIC ATTENTION
To the preceding Directions of Dr. Budd, as to the best means of preventing
the spreading of Scarlet Fever, is this moment, of the utmost importance,
for in the returns of the Registrar General for the week ending on Saturday,
October 30th, 1869, it appeared that in London alone Scarlet Fever had
destroyed during the previous 13 weeks, 2,317 lives, and for the week ending
Nov. 6th, the deaths from Scarlet Fever in London were 241.
Board of Works,
Wnitechapel District,
November 10 th, 1869.