The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06

0tner dangerous diseases. Such being
the truth, neither individuals nor COM
m nun q. can afford to ignore the fact
that they are in great degree respon-
slDle Tor their own healths z;s II ss5
when . case occurs in family, the
sick person should be placed ina room
apart from the other inmates of the
house, and should be nursed, as far as
possible, by one person only. The sick
chamber should be well warmed, well
aired and exposed to sunlight its fur
niture should besucha - can be cleansed
without injury. and AL superfuous
things, as window and table drapery,
woolen carpets and the ike, should be
removed. The family should not min
gle with other people. Visitors should
pc warned of the presence of con-
tagious disease and children should NOT
be admitted to the house.
(" All clothing removed from the pa
tient should be at once placed in boil
ing water; instead of handkerchief,
soft pieces of linen or cotton cloth
should be used, and Immediately
burned. Disinfectants should be placed
in all the vessels which receive the ex-
pectcration or other discharges from
the patient. Disinfectants should also
be freely used in the sick room. Those
which destroy bad odors without caus-
ing others are best, such as solutions Of
nitrate of lead and chloride of zinc.
"The sick person should not mingle
with others until fully recovered, and,
in scarlet fever, until all roughness Of
the skin, due to the disease, has disap-
peared, because the eMoliated skin is
especially infectious.
1.-THE disinfection of the sick room
should be thorough. The walls should
be dry-rubbed and the cloths used
burned without shaking; the ceiling
should be scraped and lime-washed
The floor and woodwork should be
washed with soap and water. The
clothing or bedding used by the patient
or nurses should be purified by cooling
for at least one hour, and should al
ways be cleaned by themselves, and
under no circumstances, should they
be sent to laundry. In case of death
the body should be placed as early as
practicable in the coffin, with disinfect
ants, and the coffin tightly closed. q
Children certainly, and in mos
cases adults, should not attend 8
funeral from house in which death
from diphtheria or scarlet fever has oc
Cured. But with suitable precautions
it is not necessary that the burial should
be strictly private, provided that the
corpse be not in any way exposed.
Because children are especially liza.
BILE to take and to spread these diseases
and because schools afford free op.
portunity for this, every child from any
family in which case of either Of
these diseases has occurred, should be
excluded from school, and be readmit.
ted not sooner than one month from
the beginning of the disease, except
upon the certificate of some competent
physician that it will be SAFE
All the above precautions concern
the dangers of contagion. But the con-
tinued prevalence of these diseases in
any community is probable evidence Of
insanitary surroundings, and of sources
of sickness partially or wholly prevent.
able. The most exemplary housewife,
whose home is the very model of neat
ness and order, may have all her eff.
forts defeated in a sanitary sense by a
defective sink-trap, or leaky drain
pipe, or an Overlooking cess-pool, OF
an underdrained cellar, or even by a
heap of decaying garbage in her neigh
boris yard.
Therefore, look well to the sur
roundings. Abolish filth, remove damp
ness and all sources of foul air, es-
pecially from living and sleeping rooms.
Disinfect thoroughly all suspected
places in yards and neglected corners.
1.-THE following disinfectant is both
very cheap and efficient: Take of cop
peras (sulphate of iron) five pounds
and dissolve in three gallons of water. -
-Nep Hacen Conn. Register.