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II.-DIRECTIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF
INFECTIOUS (CATCHING) DISEASES.
When any infectious disease, such as typhus fever, small-
POX, SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, 01' CHOLERA, exists in a house,
observe the following rules:—
1. Keep the door of the room open, and if the weather be
warm enough the top sash of the window a few inches down
night and day, so as to secure the exit of bad air, and the
entrance of fresh Air, into the room.
2. Keep the room and every thing about the sick person
very clean. Change the patient's linen frequently, and let all
dirty linen be taken out and put immediately into cold, and
afterwards well washed in hot water. Let all discharges and
evacuations be immediately removed, and the utensils well
washed, and then rinsed with a solution of chloride of lime, or
some other disinfecting solution.
3. Let no more people be in the room than are requisite
to attend the sick person. The nurse or attendant should place
themselves on that side of the bed towards which the current
of air comes, and they should endeavour to avoid the patient's
breath and. vapour from the discharges.
4. In all cases where infectious diseases break out the sick
person should be separated from the rest of the family, either
by removing the healthy part of the family or the sick person.
In the case of those needing assistance for the removal of the
sick, application should be made at the Workhouse, Poland
Street.