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at least be boiled before being drunk. Immediately after the
illness is over, whether ending in death or recovery, the dresses
worn by the nurses should be washed or destroyed, and the bed
and room occupied by the sick should be thoroughly disinfected.
These are golden rules. Where they are neglected, the fever
may become a deadly scourge. Where they are strictly carried
out, it seldom spreads beyond the person first attacked. A yard
of thin wide-width gutta percha placed under the blanket, under
the breech of the patient, by effectually preventing the
discharges from soaking into the bed, is a great additional
safeguard.
Medical men and others are invited to report any case of
Typhoid Fever at the Vestry Hall, Piccadilly, in order that the
Sanitary Inspector may inspect the drains and see to the
general sanitary condition of the house in which the fever occurs.
These directions have also been reprinted in other
Parishes, and have I believe, been the means of
checking the spread of this disease in many localities.
The importance of preventing the spread of Typhoid
Fever will be appreciated by the fact that it does
not attack children so often as the elder branches
of families—the fathers and mothers, the breadwinners
and supporters of families.
Small Pox.
Although no death has been recorded this year
from this disease, yet circumstances have especially
drawn attention to the occurrence of Small Pox
amongst us, and the means for its prevention.
On July 22nd I reported to the Fortnightly
Meeting of the Vestry as follows:—