The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-12-17
Diphtheria---lIOw to Regulate IL and
Treat 1t.

The following rules for the prevention
or eXtirpation of diphthefla form the
concluding sentences of report sub
mitted recently by DR.. stephen Smith
to the Chicago Board Of Health.
"Cleanlness in and around the dwell
ing and pure air in living and sleeping
rooms are of the utmost importance
wherever any contagious disease is pre-
vailing, as cleanliness tends both to
prevent and mitigate it. Every kind and
source of filth around and in the house
should be thoroughly removed; cellars
and foul areas should he cleaned and
disinfected; drains should be put in per
feet repair; dirty walls and ceilings
should be limewashcd, and every occu-
pied room should be thoroughly venti-
lated. Apartments which have been
occupied by persons sick with diphtheria
should be cleansed with disinfectants,
ceilings limewashed and wood work
painted, the carpets bed dClothes, uphol-
stored furniture, etc, exposed many days
to fresh air and the sunlight (all articles
which may be boiled or subjected TO
high degrees of heat should be thus dis
infected). Such rooms should be eN-
posed to currents Of fresh air for at least
one week before reoccupatiOn.
when diphtheria is prevailing no
child should be allowed 10 kiss strange
children nor those suffering from sore
throat (the disgusting system of compel
ling children to kiss every visitor is a
well-contrived method Of propacatiDg
other grave diseases than diphiheria),
nor should it sleep with or be confined
to rooms occupied by, or use articles, as
toys taken in the mouth, handkerchiefs,
etc, belonging to children having sore
throat, Group or catarrh. If the weather
is cold the child should be warmly clad
with fiannels
When diphtheria is in the house or
the family the well children should
| be scrupulously kept apart from the sick,
in dry, well l-aired rooms, and every pos
sible source of infection through the air
| by personal contact with the sick and by
articles used about them or in their
rooms should be rigidly guarded. Every
attack of sore throat, Group and CatarTh
should be at once attended to. The fee
bic should have invigoIating food and
treatment
"The sick should be rigidly isolated in
well-aired (the air being entirely changed
a. least hourly, unlighted rooms, the
outflow Of air being, as far as possible,
through the external windows by de-
pressing the upper and elevating the
lower sash, or a chimney heated by a
fire in an open fireplace; all discharges
from the mouth and nose should be
| ceived into vessels containing disinfect-
ants as solutions of carbonic acid
or sulphate of zinc, or upon cloths
which are Immediately burned, or if not
burned thoroughly boiled, or placed un-
der disinfecting fluid"
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THE only thoroughly blighted being is
the young man who has been deceived in
! a meerschaum. When he has expended
his money in purchasing the costly com
| fort, when he has consumed TOBACCO
enough TO unsettle the nerves OF mi
noceros, and the stubborn pipe sun re-
| fuses TO color, demonstrating 10 MIN the
| fact that he has been sold, then does the
| hoIIowpess of this world and all that
therein is become fully and disgu~tinsly
apparent.