Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-10
Scarlet Fever.

The following advice, regarding the
best method of avoiding contagion in
scarlet fever, has been furnished to Home
and Health by successful physician:
l. On the first appearance of the disease
the patient should be placed in a separate
apartment, as near the top of the house
as possible, from which curtains, carpets,
bed hangings and other needless articles
of furniture should be removed, and no
person except the medical attendant and
the nurse or mother permitted TO enter
the room.
2. A basin containing solution of
chloride of lime or carbolic acid should
be placed near the bed for the patient to
spit in.
3. Handkerchiefs not to be used, but
pieces of rag employed instead, for wip-
ing the mouth and nose of the patient:
each piece, after being used, should be
Immediately burned
A. A plentiful supply of water and tow
els should be kept for the use of the
nurse, whose hands, of necessity, will be
soiled by the secretions of the patient
In one handbasin the water should be
impregnated with Condy's fluid or chlor-
ides, by which the taint on the hand may
at once be removed.
5. Outside the door of the sick-room a
sheet should be suspended so as to cover
the entire doorway; this should be kept
constantly wet with q solution of lime.
The effect of this will be to keep every
other part of the house free from infec-
| tion.
8. The discharges of the bowels and
kidneys of the patient should be received
into vessels charged with disinfectants,
such as the solution of carbolic acid, or
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ed. BY these means the poison thrown
off from internal surfaces may be render
ed inert, and deprived of the power of
propagating disease.
| z. The thin skin or cuticle which peels
off from the hands, face and other parts
of the body in convaloscent 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 over the skin. This
practice is to commence on the fourth
day after the appearance of the eruption,
and to be continued every day until the
patient is well enough to take warm
bath. These baths should be administas-
ed every other day for four times, when
the disinfection of the skin may be re-
garded as complete This, however,
should not be done without first consult.
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The foregoing directions will apply to
all kinds of fever smallpox and other
contagious diseases.
NODE OF DIsINFECTING A SICK ROOM.
The patient having been removed, all
linen articles, such as sheets, towels, pill
low cases and body linen, are to be disin
fected by placing them in large vessel
containing either Condy's fluid or the
solution of chloride CT lime or soda The
blankets, counterpanes and woolen arti
cles of clothing are to be suspended on
lines, and mattresses and beds placed or
the backs of chairs, and the furniture /.
also to be removed from the walls, Tho
windows closed, papers pasted over the
crevices, the chimney opening of the fire
place is also to be stopped up. An opeI
iron vessel is next placed in the middle o
the room, into which put quarter of
pound of stone birthstone; the brimstont
is to be then ignited, and the person who
does it must Immediately leave the apart
ment, close the door, and paste paper owe
the crevIces. At the expiration of TWEEN
ty-four hours, the room may be entered
and the doors and windows thrown opel
to allow the fumes of sulpher to escape
By this process the room and everythin!
! in it may be considered to have beel
thoroughly disinfected.