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taining Condy's fluid or chlorides, and another plain soap and
water, should be always at hand for the immediate removal of
the taint. All glasses, cups, or other vessels, used by or about
the patient, should be scrupulously cleaned before being used by
others. The discharges from the bowels and kidneys should be
received on their very issue from the body into vessels charged
with disinfectants, and immediately conveyed away.
No person should be allowed to enter the room except those who are
attending upon the sick. Persons attending upon the sick should be
scrupulous in cleaning their hands and disinfecting their clothes before
they go out of the sickroom, or communicate with those who have not
got the disease.
IX.—When persons have had the Small Pox, whether they
get well or die, the room in which they have been ill should be
disinfected. The floor should be washed with chloride of lime
and water, or carbolic acid and water. The paper should be
removed by moistening with carbolic acid and water, or with
Condy's fluid and water.. The room should then be fumigated
by burning sulphur in an iron dish, the fireplace, crevices in
windows and doors being closed by putting paper over them.
The room should be exposed to the sulphur vapour for five or
six hours. Or, the room may be fumigated in the same way
with chlorine vapour, which is procured by pouring oil of vitriol
on common salt and oxide of manganese.
X.—After the room has been fumigated, it should be limewhited,
and the doors and windows kept open for a week or a
fortnight.
By Order of the Vestry,
EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D.
March, 1871. Medical Officer of Health.
As a conclusion from the observation of the facts
of the epidemic of Small Pox, I would draw your
attention once more to the necessity of wider legislation
for its suppression. It is impossible, with
our present municipal machinery, in London, at