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every attendance on the sick person, and wash at least hands
and faces, and change their outer clothes, when going off duty.
No visitors, and especially no children, should be allowed in
the infected house, and no domestic pets (and more especially
no cats) should be allowed in the sick room.
4.—Special cups, saucers, glasses, spoons, forks, etc.,
should be kept for the patient, and all spare food left from
the sick room immediately destroyed.
5.—Soiled linen, including underclothing, handkerchiefs,
bedclothes, towels, diapers, etc., etc., should be immersed in
a large pail of water, in which 8 or 10 ozs. of common washing
soda has been previously dissolved, left to soak for a day, and
then boiled in a copper. Materials which do not bear boiling
should be placed in a liquid disinfectant for a couple of hours
and then washed. Discharges from the mouth, nose, or ear
should be received on rags or paper, which must be burnt
forthwith. No dust should be allowed to accumulate in the
room, and the floor ought to be moistened, preferably with a
weak disinfectant solution, before dusting, and the dust
collected burnt immediately.
6.—During convalescence, a daily warm bath is advisable,
unless forbidden by the doctor for some special reason; the
face, hair, and hands, in particular, should be thoroughly
cleansed.
7.—In cases of Typhoid Fever nursed at home, particular
care must be taken to receive both the stools and urine, as
they are passed, into a suitable solution of Perchloride of
Mercury, Carbolic Acid or other disinfectant, next to cover