The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-10
Cholera.
From the New Orleans Republican,

From the New Orleans Republican,
This disease has been making some
Roadway in this city within the past
few weeks. In the month of April just
passed, there were sixty-fOur deaths by
this disease in its various forms. It is
OF great Importance, therefore, that all
sanitary conditions be maintained IA
yO1able to health. To this end the
Board, Of Health has given the follow
ing instructions to their sanitary officers
i'll making their inspections:
I. Cause vaults of privies to be disin-
fected with Zinc-irOn and carbOlic acid.
2: Yards and allies to be sprinkled
with the same mixture. Cutters and
drains may be disinfected with crude
carbOlic acid, and cOppeTas as a cheaper
compound.
3. All clothing sOiled by vomited mat
tiers or discharges from the bowels to
be Immediately placed in water con-
tanning one-half ounce to a bucketful
of water of white carbOlic acid, and as
soon as practicable to be boiled.
4. Zlnc-irOn or cOpperas and carbOlic
acid to be kept in all vessels used to re-
Ceiye the discharges from the bowels or
VOmited matters to insure any infectious
matter being at once chemically acted
upon.
5. Floors soiled by discharges or
VOmited matters, to be wet with diluted
carbOlic acid, and afterward to be
thoroughly scrubbed with soap, sand
and hot water.
6. Have alf premises where the dis
ease occur thoroughly cleansed.
Recommend the scrubbing of floors,
embarrassing Of walls, cleaning of fur
niture, and thorough ventilation; the
furniture to be moved out from walls,
etc.
In this connection, it may be timely
to reproduce the following regulations
for the disinfection of common lodging
houses or sick rooms, by means of car
bOlic acid, i'll which cases of fever OF
other infectious or contagious diseases
occur, in the city of London, adopted
under an act OF Parliament, known as
the Prevention Of diseases act:"
The following preparations Of car
bolic acid to be employed:
l. CarbOlic powder.
2. Liquid carbOlic acid, mixed with
water in the aforementioned proper
tons:
Carbolic acid half a pint, water two
gallons-shake or stir the solution
thoroughly before using.a
REGULATIONS.
1. The urine and all excavations from
q patient suffering from any Contagious
disease, to be received into Il vessel
containing three OrfOurtable spOOnfulls
Of carbOlic powder, or half a pint of the
solution of CarbOlic acid. The patient
should spit into a vessel containing a
few ounces of the solution.
2. A shallow dish, containing half a
pound Of the carbOlic powder, or two
pounds Of sand well wetted with the
solution, to be placed in each infected
dipped into the solution to be suspended
in the passage Immediately outside the
door of the sick room.
IN. B.-The room should be ventila-
ted by opening both sashes of the win
dow. The door should be opened as
little as possible. Useless wooden and
other draperies should be cleared out of
the room when the symptoms first make
their appearance.
). Foul bad clothing or body linen to
be we'll scalded with boiling water i'm
mediately on its removal from contact
with the patient, then to be dipped into
the solution diluted with three parts OF
water, and afterWard wrung out in pure
water.
4. Every part of the house to be
sprinkled with the solution twice daily,
and at least half a gallon of the solution
to be poured down each Water-clOset
and sink once a day.
5. Al! glasses, cups or other vessels
should be carefully cleaned before being
used by others.
6. Any unpaved earth in back yards
or around infected dwellings to be well
moistened with the solution, daily.
z. In case of death, the body to be
wrapped in a sheet kept wetted with a
solution, and a pound of powder to be
spread over the bottom Of the coffin.
8. On the death or removal of a pa
tient the apartment to be fumigated
with sulphur, thus: The chimney hay
ing been stopped up and the doors and
windows closed, four ounces of common
sulphur to be placed in a shallow vessel
or on a shovel, ignited and allowed to
burn itself out. The person who 5gnites
the sulphur to leave the room imme-
diately. The bed, mattress and carpet,
and all wooden articles of body and bed
clothing must be left in the room dur
ing the fumigation. The walls and
ceilings of the rooms, passages and
staircases to be washed and limeWhited.
Half q pint of undiluted liquid carbolic
acid to be mixed with each bucketful
of limewash.
8. During the prevalence of cpl
demic, carbOlic acid soap should be used
for all purposes in place of the ordinary
soap.