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some disinfectant, a fire should be kept burning day and night, and
due precautions taken regarding the ingress of fresh and the egress
of foul air. The nurse or nurses should wear dresses that can be
easily washed, and are not too loose or soft in texture; they should,
moreover, wash their hands after 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 the vessel containing them with a
cloth soaked in disinfectant and allow it to stand for about half an hour
before emptying it (carefully) into the nearest W.C. No excreta or
refuse of any kind from the sick room should find its way into the
ash-bin or be thrown upon the surface of any waste or other ground
that may adjoin the premises.
The Public Health Department undertakes the disinfection of the
sick room, bedding, clothes, etc., free of all cost, immediately the
Medical Officer of Health is notified that the patient is considered
free from infection by his doctor; moreover disinfectants are supplied