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5. The room and everything about the sick person
should be kept perfectly clean. The linen should be
frequently changed and all dirty linen removed and put
immediately into cold and afterwards well washed in hot
water. Things that cannot be washed in water, as beds,
&c. that have been in contact with the patient, should be
exposed to the heat of an oven before they are used again.
Articles of this kind can be exposed to the necessary heat in the drying
stoves at the Baths and Wash-houses, Marshall Street.
6. The vessels used in the sick room should be well
washed and rinsed out with a solution of Chloride of Lime
or Condy's Disinfecting Fluid. The latter should also be
mixed with any refuse from the sick room which is thrown
down the sinks or water closets.
7. No person should be allowed in the room but those
who are needed to attend upon the sick, and they should
place themselves on that side of the bed towards which the
current of air comes, and should endeavour to avoid inhaling
the patient's breath and the vapour from the body.
As some persons imagine that Scarlatina and Scarlet
Fever are different Diseases, it cannot be too extensively
known that they are one and the same disease, and that the
mildest cases are capable of communicating the most
destructive forms of the disease.
(Signed) EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health.
By Order of Vestry,
21st Oct. 1859.