Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-08
TIE SAFFRON SCOURGE.
How the New Orleans Board or
Health Treats CAses of yellow
Fever.

How the New Orleans Board Of
Health Treats CAseb of yellow
Fever.
The New Orleans board Of health has
issued the following respecting the incip.
lent treatment of yellow fever:
The onset is more apt to be sudden
and violent than that of the other favers
which prevail here, and apt to occur at
night.
frequently, but not invariably, a chill
precedes the fever There is violent
pain in the forehead at the beginning,
soon followed by severe pain in the lower
part of the back. The eyes are red and
glisteniug
Any individual affected as above de-
acribed should Immediately 90 home, 90
to bed, and send lor a physician without
delay. Without waiting for his arrival
q hot foot.bath should be taken, and per-
SEPARATION encouraged by warm drinks
and q moderate cover 10 bed. If there
should be any delay in the arrival of the
physician, a simple purgative should be
taken; and if the attack comes on soon
after eating, an emetio of ipecac or mus.
tard would be advisable. Prompt treat
ment is Of the utmest importance in
this disease, and it should be understood
that persons ought not to walk about
after falling sick, nor get up at all
after once going to bed, until the attack
is over.
Those who have not had the fever
should avoid localities known TO be in
fectsd, and should stay in in their houses
as much as possible during the night.
Preventive medicines are useless, and
free alcoholic potations are the worst
preparations for encouutering the fever.
Regular habits, tranquility of mind, and
moderation in all things should be OBJ
served. II any have determined to leave
the city, they should do so before they
have rendered themselves liable to COZ.
tract the fever, for it would be mich
safer to 20 through it here at home than
away among strangers.
1t is recommended hat ell articles of
clothing taken from q patients person
and bed be put in a Eve per cent. solu-
ton of Calvert's No. 8 carboIic acid.
All discharges from a patients body
should also be treated with carbolic acid,
together with any articles soiled by the
same. As further p~recaution and to
aid the board Of health in their efforts
for prevention, it is recommended to all
householders, as far as they are able to
do so at theirown expense, whether there
be cases of yellow fever on the premises
or not, to disinfect frequently their privy
vaults aud drains, and also the street
cutters. A suitable agent for this pnr-
pose being both efficient an economical.
Is a solution OF copperAs and carbolic
acid in water, in the proportion of three
pounds Of copperas and one-half pint
OF CslVert's No. 5 carbolie acid to a
bucket Of water, In case Calvert's No.
5 cannot be obtained, Pages crude acid
may be used-one and a half pints to a
bucket of water, and thoroughly stirred
up. 1t is further recommended that the
coHins Of individuals who have died of
yellow fever should be closed at the
earliest possible moment, aad in the
room where death occurred. The public
generally are earnestly dissuaded from
attending the funerals of yellow fever
patients, unless circumstances iyIpera-
lively demand. These measur ss Of do
nestle disinfection are considered of
great Importance, and che board of
beal.h urge their General observance
upon the public.
SAN CHOPIN, M. D.,
President Board of Health.