Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

ceive a liberal supply Of fresh air, with
out currents or draughts directly upon
the patient. It will be well also to have
the sun shine directly into the room.
The discharges from the throat, nose,
and mouth are extremely liable to COM
municate the disease, and should be re-
luton of copperas (sulphate Of irony or
on soft rags or pieces of cloth, which
should Immediately be burned.
The discharges from the kidneys and
bowels are also dangerous, and should
be passed into vessels containing a
strong solution of sulphate of iron
(copperas), and then be buried at least
100 feet distant from any well or when
this is impracticable they should be
passed on old cloths, which should i'm
mediately be burned.
The clothing, towels, bed linen, etc.,
on removal from the patient should at
once be removed from the room, be
placed in pail or tub Of boiling-hot
zinc solution, made in proportions as
follows: Water, one gallon sulphate
OF zinc, four ounces common salt, two
ounces.
Nurses and attendants should be re-
CURED to keep themselves and their
patient as clean as possible; their own
hands should frequently be washed and
disinfected by chlorinated soda.
All persons recovering from diphtheria
should be considered dangerous there
fore such a person should not be per-
mitted to associate with others, or to at
tend school, church or any public assem-
bly, until the throat and amy sores which
may have been on the lips Or nose are
healed, nor until all his clothing has
been thoroughly disinfected, and this
without regard to the time which has
elapsed since recovery, if the time is
less than one year.
No public funeral should be held at
house in which there is a case of diph-
liberia, nor in which q death from dph-
liberia has recently occurred Except
under extraordinary precautions there
should be no public funeral of person
who has died from diphtheria.
After death or recovery from diph-
liberia the room in which there has been
case of diphtheria, whether fatal or not,
should, with all its contents, be thor
oughly disinfected by exposure for sew
eral hours to strong fumes Of burning
sulphur, and then, if possible, it should
for several hours or days be exposed to
currents of fresh air.
Because of the innumerable ways III
which the contagion may be scattered
abont the house and premises where
there has been for some little time case
of diphtheria, the entire house and out
buildings, including cellar, garnet, wood
shed and privy, will usually need to be
disinfected.
Rooms to be disinfected must be va
Gated. Heavy clothing, blankets, bed
ding and other articles which cannot be
treated with the zinc solution should be
spread out so as to be thoroughly ex-
posed during fumigahon, which should
take place in the room where the cloth
ing, ETC., has been used in connection
with the patient. For room about ten
feet square at least two pounds of sui
phur should be used; for larger rooms,
proportionately increased quantities, at
the rate of two pounds for each 1000
cubic feet Of air-space.
Close the rooms as tight as possible,
place the sulphur in iron pans supported
upon bricks, set it on fire by hot Goals
or with the aid of a spoonful Of alcohol
lighted by a match, be careful not to
breathe the fumes of the burning sui
phur, and when certain the sulphur is
burning well, leave the room, close the
door, and allow the room to be closed
for twenty-four hours.
Care should be taken to secure the
complete burning of as much sulphur
as possible. For this purpose the iron
pan or pot in which the sulphur is
placed may previously be heated, and
may be placed in the room over hot
Goals In pan of ashes set up on bricks.
Cellars yards, stables. cutters, privies,
cesspools, water-closets, drains, sewers,
etc., should be frequently and literally
treated with copperas solution.
It is best to burn all articles which
have been in contact with persons sick
with contagious or infectious diseases.
Articles TOO valuable to be destroyed
should be exposed for one hour to a. dry
beat of from $40 deg. Fab. to 250'deg.
Fab.
Do not let child go near a case of
diphtheria. Do not permit any person
or thing, or dog, cat or other animal
to come direct from case of diphtheria
to child. Unless your services are
needed, keep away from the disease your
self. If you do visit case, battle your
self and change and disinfect your cloth
gubefore you go where there is child.
I Al influences which cause sore Threats
probably tend to promote the taking
and spreading Of this disease. Among
the conditions external to the body LA
BILE to spread diphtheria, perhaps the
most common are: infected air, infected
water, and contact aoith infected sub.
stances or persons. Because Of this,
and as means of lessening the danger
of contracting other diseases, the follow
ing precautions should always be taken,
but more particularly during the preya-
lance of any such disease as diphtheria-
Avoid exposure to wind and to breath
ing cold, dry air; also the use Of strong
vinegar or any other article of food
which tends to make the throat raw or
tender.
Do not wear or handle clothing worn
by person during sickness or con-
valescence from diphtheria.
Beware Of any person who has sore
throat. Do not kiss or take the breath
of such person. Do not drink from
the same cup, blow the same whistle or
mt his pencil or pen In your mouth.