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.2. All sudden checks to perspiration should be avoided,
such as sitting in draughts of cold air when hot from exercise.
It is always a good precaution to wear a belt of flannel round
the stomach.
3. Every person should live regularly and temperately on
those articles of food which he is used to, and which agree
with him. There is no objection to fish, fruit, or vegetables
if good, but all stale or over-kept fruit, fish, meat, and
vegetables should be shunned. Great care should be taken
to give no stale or sour food, especially sour milk, to children.
4. Intemperance and drunkenness are most dangerous. It
is to be feared that more cases of choleraic diarrhoea occur on
Mondays, and days after a holiday, than at other times.
5. It is of the utmost consequence to avoid all foul smells,
as of sinks, closets, drains, dustbins, and the like. It should
be remembered that every closet and sink which lets water
down to a drain may allow bad air to come back, so that the
traps should be looked to regularly, and be kept well charged
with water, and a little of some disinfectant, such as chloride
of lime, should be put down daily.
6. The house should be kept sweet by opening windows
and admitting plenty of fresh air. .
7. If an inmate be attacked, and he cannot be put into a
room by himself, it is better to send him to the Hospital provided
for the purpose. Infected clothes, and bedding, and
apartments should be purified under the direction of the
medical attendant. All that passes from the sick should be
looked on as highly poisonous, and be disinfected and got rid
of at once; and every vessel, and sink, and cloth, or article of
bedding or clothing that it touches, ought to be disinfected.
8. The greatest pains should be taken to secure pure water
for drinking purposes. None should be used that is not quite
bright; and this should be boiled and flavoured with tea,