Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
BOARD OF HEALTH PROCEEDINGS
BOARD OF HEALTH Rooms, |
PERRYsBURG, o., May Is, 80

Board met pursuant to call, every mem
Der present, with the President in the chair.
The following proceedings were had:
WHEREAs-The Board of Health ia fully
advised that Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
prevails in this village to large extent:
That pupils attending the schools of the
village are subjected to the danger OF con-
tracing the disease by mingling with
children from families in which the dis
ease exists:
That it i, highly desirable to prevent, if
possible, a spread OF the malady:
Therefore, Ordered, that all the schools
in the village, public, parochial, private,
are suspended until the first day OF June,
next ensuing.
And the Board OF Health would earnest
ly impress the following regulations
against scarlet fever upon the mind OF ev-
cry parent and guardian and urge u strict
and faithful observance OF them:
PREVENTION.
A convalescent child should not be al
lowed to mingle with other children till
three or four weeks have elapsed, and all
who are liable to take the malady should
be- excluded from the loom in which a case
has occurred for longer period.
No person should attend the funeral of
one who has died from scarlet fever except
those absolutely necessary to bury the dead,
and children should be rigidly excluded
| therefrom.
Children should be vigorously restrained
from congregnting together during the
above enforced vacation, otherwise the OBJ
iect sought thereby might he wholly de-
feated.
And it is required that upon every house
in which n case OF this disease is, or may
occur, the head OF the family shall place
main entrance thereof the words "Scarlet
| Fever"
CARE OF PATIENTS.
The patient should be placed in a sepa-
rate room, and no person except the ply
aician, nurse, or mother, allowed to enter
the ROOM or to touch the bedding or cloth
ing used in the sick-room, until they have
been thoroughly disinfected.
INFECTED ARTICLES.
All clothing, bedding, or other articles
not absolutely necessary Tor the use OF the
patient should be removed from the sick
room. Articles used about the patient,
such rs sheets, pilow-cases, blankets, or
clothes, must not be removed from the
sick-room until they have been disinfected,
by placing them in tub with the follow.
ing dIsiniectlng fluid eight ounces of sui
phate OF zinc, one ounce Ot carbolic acid,
three gallons of water.
They should be soaked in this fluid for
at least one hour, and then placed in boil
ing water for washing.
A piece Of muslin, one foot square should
be dipped in the same solution and sus.
pended in the sick.room constantly, and
the same should he done in the hallway
adjoining the sick-room.
All vessels used for receiving the dis.
charges Of patients should have some OF
the same disinfecling fluid constantly
therein, aud Immediately after use by the
patient be emplied aud cleansed with boil
ing water. Water closealA and privies
should also he disiniected daily with the
same fund, or a solution OF ch loride oil iron.
one pound to gallon of water, adding
one or two ounces of carbolic acid.
All straw beds should be burned.
1t is not advised to use handkerchieis
about the patient, but rather soft rags for
cleansing the nostrila and mouth whi0h
should be Immediately thereafter burned.
The ceilings and aide walls Of the sick
room after removal OF the patient should
he thoroughly cleaned aud lime washed,
and tho woodwork and floor thoroughly
serubbed with soap and water.
BY such measures Of prevention there
can be no doubt that the number Of cases
of scarlet fever wonld be greatly reduced
DIR. William Budd, Of Bristol, England,
has for years recommended similar precau.
lions in the families which he attends, and
the following Ia his testimony In regard
to the result; "Ths success OF this Meth
cd, in my own hands, has been very re
markahls. Fora period ot nearly twenty
years, during which have employed Il
in very wide field, have never known
the disease to spread in a single Instance
beyond the siek-room, and In very few IN.
stances within II. The two elements in the
method are, separation on the one hand,
and disinfectiOn on the other." British
Medical journal, Jan. 9, 1869.
], H. RHEINFRANK, Pres.
F. HoLLENBEoK, Clerk.