Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-29

Supposing. then, that there is already /
case of infectious or contagious disease in /
q bonse ..The first thing to be done is /
to isolate the patients. None should be
admitted into the room but those in I'M /
mediate attendance upon him. His nour-
ishment should be brought into an adJom-
ing room, and be taken from that to the
room of the patient by the nurse. All
sIons should be taken by the attending
nurse into this room and thoroughly dis
infected. All soiled clothing should be
immersed in boiling water containing car
b0lic acid. or some other disintectant. The
nurses clothing should be d1sln1ected on
leaving the room. A sheet should be hung
in the doorway, saturated with some dls-
injecting fluid. Within the room chloTioe Oh
lime or other disinfectant should be
sprinkled about freely. The patient
should take sulphite of soda or
chlorate of potassa internally, and
have the surface of his body
sponged with tepid water ana carboHc
soap. If it be case Of smallpox or scar
let fever, in the latter stages OF the DIS
ease. whom the dried crusts or scales are
drumming off. carboliZed oil should be
smaared over his body. He should be
bathe5 daily and the disinfecting oil rub
bed over his body again." All this trouble
should be undergone, that is to say, II we
wish to avoid the danger of contag1on.
s.Now as to the sick room: 1t should be
cleaned out after the patients removal,
everything removed and dlslntected, the
room should have its windows and doors
closed. and then on layer OF brlck or
neck or two of sand, a red hot iron plate
Should be placed, and upon it sulphur.
| The fumes of the burning sulphur Will
then fill the room, which should be kept
closed for twentv-four hours. After that
/ it should be secured out thoroughly, ana
| then the sulphur Tuning ought 10 he gone
| over again." After this second tumlga-
! ton the windows should be leit open ana
/ the room thoroughly aired. What takes
! Mace when sulphur is burned in this way
/ for purifying purposes, the main If not the
/ only Gas evolved is the sulphurous
/ acid gas. which eXerts most poison
ous Influence on the lowest forms
/ of animal and vegetable life.
No living organism can stand the poison
Gus influence of this gas. Things OF no
value should be burnt Books should be
carefully aired or shaken over some fun
inc disinfectant. as sulphur or IODINE"
Thorough exposure to the atmosphere Is
moot excellent disinfectant, as the ozone
existing in it is disintectant. oxygen,
| which was formerly considered an ele-
mentary body, and main constituent Oh
the atmosphere, which is composed OF OK
ygen and nitrogen mainly, containing also
| yaDor of water and carbOnic acid, oxygen,
| saw. has itself been decomposed into
autoZone and ozone, the latter OF which
has been found free in the atmosphere IN
some countries. and is most excellent
disinfectant. DR.. B. w. Richardson, of
London. has mixed it with ether, and rec
Ommends ozonic ether for diffusion in the
state of spray in the sick chamber, from
its great purifying powers.
Lastly. | would recommend that If the
above measures are not regarded as sutt-
cient to disinfect wearing apparel, bed
ding. ETC., our City Council should have,
as in some towns in England, large
chamber prepared, or an oven built some
where, say at the pest house, where these
articles can be subjected to dry heat, at
temperature far above the boiling point
of water, 212 degs,, for boiling Mater ter
alone. without some disinfectant, will not
destroy these germs, they having been
found alive or moving upon the cooling OF
the water. A dry heat of $50 dogs: to 700
degs. will in an hour or two or so destroy
them and completely disinfect clothing
/ Respectfully,
WIN. G. BULLOCK, NJ. D.,
| ihprtV street.