Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-08-18
PREVENTION AND CURE OF
- CHOLERA.

At a regular meeting of the New York
Board of Health on the 9th, DR.. Crane
read the following address to the public
with instructions to citizens. The docu-
ment which was approved by the Board
is as follows
The Board of Health publish this sim
pie statement, and beg the public to, give
to it their earnest attention.
Cholera is generally a preventable dis
ease, and IN early stages can be arrested
if the habits be good. Study, therefore,
temperance IN eating aud drinking. Do
not believe that alcoholic st;mulans are
useful in guarding you against an attack.
Let the food be nutricious, and keep the
digestive organs in a healthful condition.
Use no stale or uncooked vegetables. Let
our meat be fresh and your vegetables
we'll cooked, and all fruits be fresh aud
ripe.
Cleanliness of the body is Of the first
consideration.
Keep the skin in a healthy state by
bathing the whole body, with a free use
of soap. Cold bathing is best used in
the morning-neyer just before going to
bed.
Dry frictions, or the warm bath, may
be more safely used before going to bed.
Cleanliness in your house is of equal
Importance. let your appointments be
dry-never damp. Suffer no decayed We
getables or stagnant water to remain in
your cellars or yards. Any disagreeable
smell from privies, cespools sinks, is a
proof Of their unhealthiness. Remove
them by necessary repairs, lime, chloride
Of lime or embarrassing. Venti]ate well
your houses and apartments. Expose
your bedding to the air and sun. Avoid
excessive fatigue. Keep regular hours
in eating and and sleeping. Wear fan
mel near to the skin. And a good thing
is, if the bowels are at all disordered, to
wear a broad band of flannel Ga flannel
belly band) around the body, reaching
from the hips to the ribs. Maintain the
natural temperature Of the body by sufi-
Gent clothing, especially keep the feet
warm. Never when heated sit on the
grass or stone seats. Or sleep under an
open window. IF exposed to wet, change
your boots and clothes as soon as posi-
BILE.
Take 10 purgative medicines, except
by direction of a physician.
Cholera is almost invariably preceded
by a painless diarrboea and this is in all
cases to be promptly treated.
When diarrhoa is present, go to bed
and maintain a position on the back, use
abundance of blankets, and send for a
physician.
A physician always be bad by APP
plying at the nearest public station.
Stay i'll bed until you are well. Do not
consider yourself well until you have
had a natural movement by the bowels.
Abstain from all drinks. Apply mustard
plasters to the boYels.
In the absence IF a physician an adult
can take ten drops of laudnum and ten
drops of spirits Of cs,npbor. A child of
ten years may take five drops of %laudnum
and five drops Of campior. A child of
i've years may take three drops Of laud-
mum and five drops of spirits Of campbor;
and these doses may be repeated every
twenty minutes SO long as diarrhma or
pain, or vomiting continues. This will
save time, but in all cases send for a ply
sician.
Never chill the surface of the body by
getting out of bed.
Remove Immediately all the evacua-
tons from your rooms ;scald all the uten-
sils used, or disinfect them with chloride
of lime ; scald also your soiled clothing.
JACKSON S. CHUIrz, JAMES CRANE, NJ. B.,
WILLIAM PARKER, JOHN O. STONE, NJ. D.,
THoAAs G. ACTON, john G. BERGEN.
}. S. BoswoRrH, Benz. F. MANNIERRE.
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