The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-04-01
RESTRICTION AND PREVEN-
TION OF SCARLET FEVER.

| Issued by the tennessee State Board OF Health
The State board of health desire to
disseminate as widely as possible
among the people Of this state the
knowledge ut certain facts and princi-
pies, which seem to be well established
as to the nature and cause Of Scarlet
Fever, and the rational means for its
restriction and prevention. To that
end they invite attention to the follow
ing facts:
/. Scarlet Fever-or, as this dis
ease is sometimes called, "Scarlatina, Z"
or "Scarlet Rash, or "CAnker Rash,
stc.-is propagated BY contagisn or
infection.
2. This contagion becomes operative
by inhaling the exhalations, or by
contact with the person Of one who Is
suffering with the disease, or by con-
tact. with the discharges from the eyes
ears, nose, throat, kidneys and bow
OF the sick; or with the clothing, bed
ding, carpets or other furniture which
may have been in use ny the sick.
3. Young children are especially
liable to scarlet fever-older ones and
adults less so.
The period during which the disease
can be communicated may approxl-
matelv lie placed at four weeks, sup
posing that the patient has conval
esced and remains free from fever and
dropsical symptoms.
The following measures are recon-
mended as preventives against the
spread of this most contagious disease;
l. Put no reliance in belladona,
suIphocarbolate of soda, or other so>
called antidotes.
2. Put rigid quarantine upon the
sick for period of at least three
weeks, even if the disease exists in the
mildest form, and during this period
exclude all persons from the patients
room who are not necessarily i'll at
tendance there; secure, without sensi-
BILE currents or drafts, u continual
change of the air OF the sick room.
8. The clothing and bed-clothes
used by the patient should be disinfec-
ted by soaking in weak solution of
clorinated soda before their removal
from the room, and subsequently they
should be thoroughly boiled.
4. The discharges of the sick should
be received in vessels containing,a so>
luton of sulphate of iron or copperas
(In the proportion of about three
pounos of copperas to one gallon of
water), and should lie at once buried,
and not thrown into the privy or wa
ter-closet
5. Those in attendance upon the
sick should not mingle with other
members of the household who are IL
able to have the disease, and the par
ties so exposed should repeatedly rinse
the mouth and gargle the throat with
some mild astringent.
6. In case of death by scarlet fever,
the funeral notice should state the
fact, and the funeral should be a
strictly private one.
Z. Members of any household where
scarlet fever exists, whether mild or
malignant, should refrain from ming
ling with children in school, churches
Sunday schools, or other indoor places,
and association with adults should be
restricted as much as possible.
s. A person convalescent from
scarlet fever must be considered as
dangerous as long ss scaling of the
skin continues, or any symptoms of
dropsy remain; and such persons should
not appear in public, after all symp-
TENS have disappeared, until he has
taken full bath three or feur times,
at intervals of two days. His cloth,
ing, if worn at all duriag his sickness,
must also have been thoroughly disin-
fected.
8. All articles of clothing in use BY
any of the sick, and all articles of fur
niture used in the sick room, should
be thoroughly disinfected. Boiling
is the best means of disinfec.ing cloth
ing, and for the disinfection of furni-
ture. it should be subjected for eight
or ten hours to dense fumes Of burning
sulphur, iI a close room. The room
which has been occupied bv a scarlet
fever patient should be newly painted
and papered, or kalsomined. Any ar
ticle which cannot be disiufected
should be burned.