The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-06-20
S,lsolcrn PreeanlionEl.


AS this disease has been making come
hoadway III New Orleans for several weeks,
tic Board of Health deemed it prudent to
give The following instructions to their aani
tary officers ii making their Inspections;
|. Cause vaults of privio3 to be disin-
rectod With zipc-iron and carbolic ncid.
2. Yatds and alloys to be sprinklod with
the sale mixture Cutters aid drains may
ba disiniectod with crude carbolic acid, and
copparas as i cheaper compound
3, All clothing soiled by yomited matters
Of discharges from the bowels to be imme-
diately placed ii water containing ouohalf
ounce 10 4 buckotful 81 water Of white car
bolic acid, anl is soon as practicable to bo
boiled.
4. Hinciron Or copporaa aud carbolc acid
to be kept III all vessels used to receive the
discharges from the bowels or vomited mat
tiers to insure anyinfectious matter being at
once chemically acted upon.
s. Floors aoiled by discharges or yomited
matters, to be wet with diluted carbolic acid,
and alterwad to DO thoroughly scrubbed
with soap, sand, and bot water.
6. Have all promises where tho disease
occurs thoroughly eleanaed.
Recommend the acrubbing Of floors,
whitcwashing Of walls, cleaning oflurniture
and thorough yentilationi the furniture to
~ ,nnvnd AM fam ,,ollq ata
iii this connection, it may be timely to re-
produce the following regulations for the
disinfoetion Of common lodging houses OF
sick rooms, BY means Of carbolic acid, in
which cases Of leyeror other infections Or
contagious diseases occur, in the city Of
London, aloped under an act q Parliament,
known as the prevention Of diseases act"
The following preparations Of carbolic
acid to be employed
i. Carbolic powder.
q Liquid carbolie acid, mixed with water
ii The aforementioned proportions
Capbolc acid half pint, water two gall
Ions shake Or stir tile solution thoroughly
before using,
REGULATIONS.
/ i. The urine ana I'LL eyacuations from q
, patient suffering from any contagious disease,
, to be received into vessel containing three
or four table spoonfuls carbolic powder, Or
half pint Of the solution Of carbolio acid
The patient should spit into vessel con,
Y taning d few ounces.of the solution.
/. 4. shallow dish containing halfa pound
Of the carbolic powder, or two pounds Of
+ sand wen wetted with the solution, to be
J placed in each infected room, and renewed
J daily. Clothes dipped into the solution to
! be suspended i'll Che passage immediately
Q outside Che door 81 tho sick room.
TN, B.--.lho room should boHentilated
BY opening both sasho5 Of the window.
! The door should b opened ~ little as pos
! siblo. Useless wooden and other drapariea
should 30 cleared out Of tho room when tho
4 symptoms first make their appoaranee.l
3. Foul bed clothing Or body linen 70 br
well scalded with boiling water Immediately
Z Oh ita removal from contact with the pa
tient. then to be dipped into 70 solution
!, diluted with three parts of water, pud after
! wards wrung ont ii puro watar.
II 4. Every part tho house to be sprinklet
il with tho solution twice daily, and at leas
q half gallon u the solutian to be poured
d down each watarcoset and sink once day
& S. All glasses cups orother vessels ihoult
!, bo carefully cleaned before being used b,
i others.
! 6. Any unpayed earth in baokyarda o
5 around infected dwellings 20 bp well moist
!, oned with the solution daily.
J, q iii case or death, Che body 70 be wrap
} ped ia 4 street kept wottod with the solution
and pound Qr powder to be spread owe
4 the bottom Of the coffin.
4 S. On tbs death Of removal Of patien
|, The apartment to be famigated with suI
2 pbm, thus; lThe chimney having bee
i stopped up and the doors and window
= closed, four ounces Of common sulphur t
= be placed in shallog vessel Or on shove
?, ignited and allowed to burn itself out Th
d person who ignites the sulphur to leave th
u room Immediately. The bed. mattress an
@ carpet, and all wooden articles Of body an
a bed clothing must be left in the room durin
le the funigation. The walls and ceilings
" the rooms, passages and starcases to /
washed and limewhited. Halfa pint Of III
~ diluted carbolic acid to be mixed with eac
e bucketfnl Of limewash.
or .. During the prevalence Of epidemic
a carbolic acid soap should be used for a
IN purposes in place of the ordinary soap.
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ne The New Orleans Picayunc says, a amarke
pg improvement has taken place in the cotto
he market since Fridays review, stimulate