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The following are the localities in which the cases of fever attended by
the Medical Officers of the Union occurred in Inspector Wrack's District
during the year 1874.
Feb. No. 30, Spital square 1
„ 9, Dowson's place 1
Apr. „ 15, Pelham street 1
May „ 1, Hobson's court 1
Aug. „ 10, Jacob's court 1
„ 39, Spicer street 1
Sept. „ 6, Artillery passage 1
„ 88, Church street 1
„ 1, Green's place 1
Oct. ,, 23, Brown's lane 1
Oct. No. 6, Artillery passage 1
„ 4, Samuel street 1
„ 4, Lamb street 1
Nov. „ 11, "Wood street 2
„ 15, Steward street 1
„ 20, Hunt street 5
Dec. „ 2, Little North street 1
Total 22
The following are
SUGGESTIONS BY THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH,
For Preventing the Spread of Infectious or Contagious Diseases, such as Scarlet
Fever, Small Pox, Fever, &c.
1.—Separate the sick person from the rest of the family directly illness Separation of the sick.
appears, placing him, if possible, in a room at the top of the house, and
taking care to remove carpets, curtains, and all unnecessary articles of
furniture and clothing therefrom.
2.—Admit fresh air by opening the upper sash of the window. The fire- Ventilation
of sick room and house.
place should be kept open, and a fire lighted if the weather permits. Fresh
air should be freely admitted through the whole house by means of open
windows and doors. The more air that passes through the house, the less
likely is the disease to spread.
3.—Hang up a sheet outside the door of the sick room, and keep it wet
with a mixture made either with a quarter of a pint of carbolic acid (No. 4),
or a pound of chloride of lime, and a gallon of water. The floor should
frequently be well sprinkled with either of the same disinfectants, and
cloths, wetted with either, hung up in the room.
Disinfection
of room.
4.—Every thing that passes from the sick person should be received into
vessels containing half a pint of solution of green copperas, made by dissolving
one pound of the copperas in a gallon of water. A like quantity
of the solution of copperas should be added to the discharges before
emptying them into the closet.
Disinfection
of matter
passed from
the sick.
5.—Every sink, closet, or privy, should have a quantity of one of the
above-named disinfectants poured into it daily, and the greatest care
should be taken to prevent the contamination of well or drinking water
by any discharges from the sick person.
Disinfection
of sinks, &c.;
care of well
or drinking
water.
6.—All cups, glasses, spoons, &c., used by the sick person should be first
washed in the above-named solution of carbolic acid, and afterwards in hot
water, before being used by any other person.
Disinfection
of utensils.
7.—No article of food should be allowed to remain in the sick room.
No food or drink that the sick person has tasted, or that has been in the
sick room, should be given to anyone else.
Disinfection
of linen, &c
8.—All bed and body linen, as soon as removed from the sick person, and
before being taken from the room, should be first put into a solution of