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privy receptacle, and above all, they must never be cast where they
can run or soak into sources of drinking water.
11. All reasonable care should be taken not to allow infective
disease to spread by the unnecessary association of sick with
healthy persons. This care is requisite, not only with regard to the
sick house, but likewise with regard to schools and other establishments
wherein members of many different households are accustomed
to meet.
12. If disease begins in houses where the sick person cannot be
properly accommodated and tended, medical advice should be taken as
to the propriety of removing him to an infirmary or hospital. Every
Local Authority should have in readiness a hospital for the reception
of such cases.
Where dangerous conditions of residence cannot be promptly
remedied, it will be best that the inmates, while unattacked by
disease, remove to some safer lodging.
Persons who have been in association with the sick should be
kept under observation for a time corresponding to the longest known
period of incubation of the disease in question.
13. In the event of death taking place from an infectious disease,
the body should as soon as possible be placed in a coffin with
chlorinated lime or other suitable disinfectant, and should be buried
(or cremated) with no longer delay than is necessary to allow the fact
of death to be verified. Holding of "wakes," large funeral assem
blages, and exposure of the corpse to visitors, are especially to be
avoided, as is also borrowing of mourning dress for the occasion of the
funeral.
14. Privation, as predisposing to disease, may require special
measures of relief.
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