Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-25


lence and panic Is to know and prepare for
the danger. 1t is the only way to deal sue
cessiu.ly with cholera.
SANITARY CLEANSING.
The local conditions that chiefly promote
the outbreaks and propagation of cholera
are
J. Neglected priyics.
. Filth-~odden grounds
3. Foul cellars, and filthy or badly-dalned
surroundings ofdwellingS.
1. Foul and DISTRACTED hou~e-drain~.
). Decaying and putrescent materials,
whether animal or vegetable.
C. Unyentilaied, damp and wncleanSed
dwellings and apartments.
These localizing causes of cholera should
be promptly and very thoroughly removed
before case Of the disease appears in the
town or district and if any sources OF
putrescence, or of excessive moisture re-
main, those should be controlled by the pro
per cleansing. drying, and disinfection.
Thorough Scayenging and surface drainage,
with the application at the same time OF
quick-ime and coal-rar or crude carbolic
acid white-washing with fresh quicklime
the cleansing and thorough drying and ven
tilation of cellars, easements, chambers and
closets. and daily care TO cleanse, flush, ven
tilate and parity the sources of dehlement
about all inhabited premises, viii afford al
most complete protection if suitable care Is
taken Of
PERSONAL HEALTH.
The security of personal health requires
pure drinking water. fresh and substantial
food. temperance, and the needed rest and
hathing Of the body.
pISrNFECTloN AND DIsINFECTANTs.
The principles relating to disinfection as a
means If destroying the proIagating or in
fictitious cause of cholera-the e cholera con-
arium'-arc readily understood, and may
Dee So explained to any family that the house
bol may insure its own immunity against
ihe Introduction and spread of the disease.
For popular use we append brief statement
of these principles at the end of this circu-
l5r. and we respectfully recommend that the
statement and the following schedule ofrules
and methods he given 10 the press and to all
principals of schools, superintendents of
pubIir resort, railroad depotS, ferries, hotels
and public institutions, and to the masters
Of ships and steamboats,, and the conductors
of passenger trains throughout this conti-
ucnt believing, as we do. that by the time
rs application of these measures the preya-
lence of cholera may be prevented, but let
the fact hc remembered that there can he no
substitutes lor thorough cleansing and fresh
air.
RULES AND METHODS or pfSiNFEcTIoN-
for pri,ies, water closets, drains and sew
'r- Eight or ten pounds of sulphate Of
iron (coppcas) dissolved in Eve or six gallons
of water, with a half pint of crude carbol-
Be- acid added 10 the solution and briskly
stirred makes the cheapest and best disin-
tectant fluid for common use. 1t can be pro-
cured in every town and by any family, and
If the carbolic acid Is not at hand the solu-
tion of copperas may be used without it.
To prevent priyies and water-closets from
becoming infected or offensive Pour a
pint of this strong solution intoeyery water
closet pan or priyy seat once or twice day.
To di~iniect masses Of filth, priyy vaults,
sewers AID drains Gradually pour in this
solution until 1t reaches and di~iniects all
the foul material.
For the chamber vessels used by the sick,
and for the disinfection of ground upon
which any excremental matter has been cast
away, Use the solution of copperas and car
b1Nc acid for di-inlecting extensive masses
or surfaces of putre~cent materials, and for
drains, sewers and bitches. the dead oil OF
coal-tar, or coal tar itself Is available : coal
tar may be used as a di~iniectant paint upon
the walls Of cellars. stables or open drains.
Quicklime i useful as an absorbent and
drier upon foul walls and in damp places
aud whitewashing with it should he prac-
u>ed IN common tenementS. factories, base
ment>, closets and garretS.
Iodisiniect the clothing deiiled in any
manner by cxcremenial matters from the
sick. throw all such articles Immediately int
boiling water and continue the boiling fol
half ar hour. or place them in solution
covered. made as follows One pound o
>ulphatc of zine, six or eight gallons Of wa
ter. tc which add two or three ounces o
pure strong carbolic acid. This is also al
excellent disinfectaut for bed-pans and cham
ber vessels. also for disnlecting floors an,
other dcfled surfaces Keep the soiled ar
ticles saturated until they can be boiled. |
the acid is not at hand use the zinc waite
alone
Apartments, bedding, and upholstery tina
have been used by the sick with cholera o
diarrhWa, should be fumigated by the burn
ing of several pounds ofbrimstone (sulphur
upon defended iron pan, or 10y crude car
bolic acid, chloride of lime. and sulphur
acid, with the place tightly closed for seyera
hours, under physician : directions.
fRlNcllLEs AND DUTIIS TO BE TAUGHT.
|. That thorough cleanliness. domesti
and civic and an abundant supply of pur
water are essential means of preventin,
cholera in any household when the disease i
near.
.. That general cleansing. s,avencinc AN,
disinfection should be attended to in ever
city and town before cholera makes its an
pearance; and that wherever it does appear
that house and the exposed premises SHOULD
he kept constantly disinfccted
8. That, in the words of the chief medi
cal officer of Great Britain, - 1t appears t
be Characteristic Of cholera, not only of tn
disease in its developed and alarming form
but equally Of the slightest diarrhma whicl
the epidemic can produce, that all matter
which the patient discharges from his stom
ach ard bowels are inlectiye that the IA
tents power of injecting other persons
represented almost OF quite exclusively b
those discharges; that they are comparative
lY non-lniectiye at the moment they are dis
charged, but afterwards, when undergoin
decomposition, acquire their maximum in
fectiye power aud that if they can he cas-
away without previous disinfection, they i'm
part their own infectire quality to the excrt
mental matters with which they mingle
ilth-sodden earth, or in repositories and col
duits of filth, and to the efiluyia which thes
excremental matters evolve: that if the il
ieetive material by leakage or soakage froI
drains or ceSspools, or otherwise, gets acces'
even in the smallest quantity, directly c
through porous soils, to wells or othe
sources OF drinking water. ii can infect
the most dangerous manner very large 70