The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-01-28
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uamp apartments, dirty cellars, gut
sers, sinks, decaying matters, pool
Of standing liquids and other source
Of filth. 1t is usually confined q
persons from two to fifteen years o
age. The atmosphere, the breathing
OF which causes the disease, seems tc
be fcll Of living things, vegetable and
animal, the bacteria and micocoppins
some Of which lodge in the throat
ana form white sp!otchcs, which arc
distinctive Of the malady, and whose
presence quickly poisons the blood
hence there shoaId not be moinenrs
delay In sending for physician, al
the march Of the disease Is always
rapid and It's yirulence increases CIV.
cry hour.
AS with most other diseases, dlph-
thcria Is most likely 10 ettack those
whose systems have been dcbilitated
by iliness,poor diet or any cause what
ever. Any irritation Of the throat
prepares the way for the disease.
Any person affected should be taken
to an upper room, into which no one
should come except those IN perfect
health, and who have not the slight
est scratch or sore on any part Of the
body, particularly the hands. Tile
room should be ventilated all the
time, all discharges should be quickly
removed, the clothing frequently
changed and at once covered with
water containing carbolic acid. Diph-
theria taken from another person is
more malignant than when generated
by bad air. The following are the
Brooklyn Health Boards recommen-
dations for the sanitary treatment Of
scarlet fever and diphthcria
When scarlet fever or diphtheria
occurs, tho sick person, child or adult
should be placed in room apart from
the other inmates or the house, and
should be nursed by as few persons
as possible.
The sick room should be comforta-
bly, warIh, exposed TO sunlight, and
we'll aired /; at the commencement OF
the sickness only such furniture, bed
ding, clothes, etc, rs are absolutely
necessary should be lefs in the room
carpets and window curtains should
especially be removed, as the germs
Of the disease find lodgment in
them and are difficult TO dfsplace.
The family should not mingle with
Other people. Visitors should be
warned Of the presence Of a danger
ous disease in the LoJse, and no one
should be admitted.
the clothing and bedding OF nurse
and patient should be frequently
changed, and after being moist
encd with "a solution Of carbolic
acid, PLACED in boiling water Sr one
hour. No other clothing or bedding
should be washed at the same lime
with that which is infected.
The clothing and bedding while in
use, and the carpets, floors, walls and
ceiling, and the halls of the house
should be sprinkled once or twice a
day during sickness and GONZALES
cence with solution Of carbolic acid.
A solution OF ca'kolic acid well adapt
ed TO all such uses is sold by most
pharmacists, and may be easily made
by shaking together in a bottle the
impure carbolic aciJ and water in the
proportion of teaspoonfUI Of the car
bolic acid to pint OF water. This
il best applied with a sprinkler, but
may be well applied by dipping the
end Of common dust-brush into the
solution contained in 4 dinner plate,
and throwing 1t Off the brush on 10
bedding, carpets, walls, etc.
When the patient has recovered,
the walls ofthe room should be rubbed
with a dry cloth, and the cloth burned
at once without shaking. The ceiling
should be scraped and whItened. The
floor should be washed with soap and
hot water, and carbolic acid added tC
the water-one pint to three gallons
For the purpose of fumigation, the
windows and doors of the room anC
the fireplace should be tightly closed
Everything that was in the room dur
inf the sickness should be left in it
If the carpet was not removed, i
should be taken up and raised as fa
as possible from the floor, on chair
or in any other manner one boarC
of the floor should be taken up.
An iron kettle should then be raiseC
from the floor on bricks and fiv,
pounds of sulpher placed therein
upon this four ounces of alcohol ar
to be poured and set on fire. Ever.
one must withdraw from the room, a
the fumes are poisonous. The pre-
cautions taken with the carpet, anC
the removal of the board from tn
floor, allow the fumes of the burnin
sulphur TO pass beneath the floor an
between the walls, and to destroy an
germs of disease which may be there
At the expiration of ten hours, nC
before, the room may be opened. A
the windows, doors and fireplac
should remain epen for twenty-fou
hours, that everything may be we
aired. The room is then ready fo
occupation.
In the cleansing of clothing and til
fumigation every article which eoul
possibly have been infected should b
incladed, as even soiled Handkerchief
may communicate the disease. Shoul
q second case occur, the entire hous
should be fumigated asabove directed
The occurrence of diphtheria c
scarlet fever in the house should lea