Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-12-30
SCARLET rEvER.

= e SCARLET FEVER.
Increase Of the Disease--An Ounce ef
Prevention.
At this season Of the year scarlet lever
is apt to assume an epidemic form. and
already the weekly reports Of the New
York Sanitary Inspector show very great
increase in the number Of deaths from this
cause II, as We are told. the usual pess
centage of mortality in scarlet fever Il =
one to twelve. il would seem probable thso
even more cases occur than are reported
to the Board Of Health. AS . meaps ot
lessening the spread Of the highly conta-
gious disease, the Medical Gazette pub,
fishes the subjoined precautions, which
have been satisfactorily tested 10 England
in very large number Of instances:
e3ai. ta DIRECTIONS.
1. On the i6rst appearance Of the dis
ease, the patient should be placed 10 -
parase apartment. as Ecar the top Of the
house as possible, from which all curtains,
carpets. bed-hsngings. and other needless
articles of furniture should be removed,
and no person except the medical attend-
ant, and the nurse or mother, permitted
to enter the room.
2. A basin containing solution Of chlo-
ride Of lime or carbolic acid should be
placed near the bed for the patient 70 spit
in. Ae
8. A large vessel containing water. ia
TO which has been poured either Oondy'S
fluid, or the solution of chloride of sods
or lime, should be kept in the room, and
into this all the bed and body linen, -
soon as it is removed from the patient. and
all soiled towels, &C., should be placed;
having been kept there for some time, the
things may be removed and sent 70 the
laundress. rr, s+a -. .ael9 81. + -
4. Pocket -handkerchiefs should not b
used. but pieces Of rag employed instead.
for wiping the meuth aud nose Of the ps-
tient; each piece, after being used, should
be Immediately burned.
s. Aplsntiful supply Of water and tow
els should be kept for the use Of the nurse
whose hands Of necessity will become soil
ed by the secretions Of the pstient; IL one
hand basin the water should be impreg-
mated with Coudy's fluid or chlorides. 81
which the taint on the hands may be ct
once removed. .-ssss zssssssEA
s. All glasses. cups, plates. OF ot6er
vessels used in the sick room should b
]scrupulously cleansed ia -beilieg xs%eap
before being used by other persons. ..-a:s
7. Outside Of the sick chamber sheet
should b. suspended so as to cover the en-
tire doorway; this should be kept constant
Iy wet With q solution Of carbelic acid or
chloride Of lime. The effect Of this will
be to keep every other part Of the house
free from infection.
8. The discharges from the bowels and
kidneys Of the patient should be charged
with disinfectants. such as the solution Of
carbolic acid or chloride Of lime, and i'm
mediately removed. BY these means. the
poison thrown of from internal surfaces
may be rendered inert. and deprived OF
the power Of propagating the disease. y
| 8. The thin skin or cuticle which peels
off from the hands, face, and other parts
Of the body in convalescent patients Is
highly contagious. The plan recommend
ed for preventing the poison from the skin
being disseminated through the air is to
rub oil or lard all over the skin. This
practice is to commence on the fourth dsy
after the appearance Of the eruption, aud
to be continued every day until the patient
is we'll enough to take warm bath.
These baths should be administered every
other day for four times. when the disin-.
fection of the skin may be regarded -
complete. This. however. should not be
done without fret consulting the medical
attendant The foregoing directions win
apply to all kinds Of fever. smallpox, and
other contagious diseases. va -
MODE OF Drs1NFscr1Na A SICK ROOM.
j The patient having been removed. Al
linen articles. such as sheets. towels. ril-
low-cases. and body linen. are to be dis
infected as by direction No. 3. This done.
the blankets. counterpanes. and woollen
articles of clothing arc to be suspended on
lines, and the mattresses and beds plsced
over the backs Of chairs; the furniture
also is to be removed from the walls. the
windows closed. and paper pasted over the
crevices; the opening Of the fireplace y
also to be efectually stopped up. Anod
saucepan lid or other open iron vessel =
/ next to be placed in the middle Of the
room, into which quarter Of pound Of
) stone brimstone. broken into pieces. 10 10
be put; the brimstoue is then to b ignit-
ed. and the person who does it must im-
} mediately leave the apartment. close the
} door, and paste paper over the cresioss.
/ At the expiration Of twenty-four hours
|, the room may be entered. and the door
and windows thrown open TO allow the
fumes Of sulphur to escape. By this pro-
D cess the room and everything in il may b.
/ considered to have been thoroughly disin-
t fected..
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