Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24

| 1t is not to be supposed every person is
thoroughly well acquainted with ali precau-
| tiOnary measures, therefore a recapItulation
will do no injury, but rather impress on the
mind all that is necessary to be done.
First-Naccinate all persons that have not
been vaocinated within a year, and continue
to do so until it takes" or until it is proved
the system is not susceptible. To prevent
delay, if there be no virus convenient, tele-
graph at once to the secretary OF the State
Board of Health.
Second-When a case of smallpox or vari-
oloid occurs, isolate them at once, provide
nurses who have had the disease. and re-
move all other persons from the house. But
keep all exposed persons either together or
under surveillance, and under no circum-
| stances allow them TO scatter abroad until
after the period OF incubation. An old out
house or, in good weather, tent should be
used as pesthouse. Good ventilating is of
| so much Importance to the patient it does
not matter how open the house is.
Third-All discharges from the patient,
whether from the nose or mouth, and
pecially the crusts from the patient, should
be kept burned as fast as collected. The
night vessels should be kept partly filed
with solution of copperas. All utensils,
such as dishes, spoons, etc, should be dipped
in boiling water after use.
Fourth-After the recovery OF the patient
all bedding, clothes, etc, used in the room
should be boiled at once and thoroughly. 1t
would be better to first drop them in So
luton of chloride of zinc and boiled after
ward. Better still, to burn them, if of little
value. All persons leaving the sick room
should be compelled to battle well and put
on complete change of clothing. The ply
stefan in attendance should do the same
thing, or wrap himself completely in linen
buster or a gum oyercoat, and tie handker-
chief around his neck, and these should be
deposited in some clubhouse for use on each
visit. 1t is such an easy matter for the ply
stefan TO convey the contagion TO other peo-
pie, he should on no account neglect these
precautions, as well as wash his face and
hands in a weak zinc solution.
Fifth-No domestic animals, such as cats
or dogs, should be permitted to enter the
sick room. No person visiting case should
be permitted to go to any general assembly,
such church meetings or school, until per-
mission Is given by the attending physician.
All letters sent from the sick room should
be subj Cted to Il dry heat OF $50 or 200 de
grees. The privy should be disiniected every
few days, and large quantity of copperas
solution thrown in it.
SiIth-After recovery patients should be
kept to their rooms at least two weeks after
all crusts have disappeared, and then bathed
in weak solution of zinc three or four
times, the head shampooed and fresh, an1
clean garments put on.
Seventh-Iu case OF death there should
be no public funeral. The body should be
wrapped in a sheet saturated with a solution
of zinc-four ounces to half a gallon Of
water-and placed in an air-tight coffin and
removed from the sick room directly to the
place of burial. The burial preparations
must be conducted by the health or local
authorities
Eighth-After death or recovery the room
should be emptied OF its Contents and while
they are being treated, as before directed, the
house should be thoroughly disinfected by
burning sulphur. All wooden articles, such
chairs, tables and bedsteads, and all arti-
cles which cannot be boiled, must be left in
the room, every possible opening stopped by
strips of paper pasted or crammed in them,
and then putting about four pounds OF sui
phur troll) in iron vessel with live Goals,
TO be left for twenty-four hours. After this
1t should be left open two or three weeks and
then washed with soap or water, or-what is
better-plastered or whitewashed All arti- !
cles not too valuable should be burned, as
we'll as the house, if but hut Especial
attention should be directed 10 the sale or
purchase Of rags and waste paper by dealers
the disease has been conveyed long dis
tances through these commodities. Dealers |
should insist on the vaccination Of all per-
sons handling rags.
Ninth-Should the disease assume the
proportions Of an epidemic, all public assem- |
blies, such as churches, schools and gather
ings of any kind, should be interdicted by
the authorities. They are justified in law to
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