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6a
Rules for Houses Disinfection.
So soon as the Sanitary Inspector becomes aware of the death,
removal to hospital, or convalescence of any person who has been
suffering from an infectious disease, it will be his duty to take
measures for the effectual disinfection of the premises, etc.
1.—In case of death, a layer of disinfecting powder should be
placed in the coffin and the lid screwed down. The friends should be
advised to permit the removal of the body to the mortuary. The
funeral should take place as early as possible.
2.—Directly after the removal of an infectious patient to the
hospital, or of the body of a person dead from infectious disease to
the mortuary or Cemetery, the room vacated must be properly
fumigated. The Sanitary Inspector will instruct the disinfectors to
proceed with No. 1 truck to the house and prepare the room.
(a) The bedding, carpets, curtains, and all articles likely to
retain infection, are first to be removed to the truck for
conveyance to the disinfecting apparatus.
(A) The chimney of the room must be closed, also the windows,
round the edges of which brown paper should be pasted.
Everything in the room should be arranged so as to be
exposed thoroughly to the fumes of burning sulphur.
Drawers, cupboards and closets must be opened.
(c) Broken sulphur, in the proportion of one pound to each
thousand cubic feet of air space, must be placed on an iron
tray over a pail of water in the middle of the floor of the
room, and set fire to.