Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-25


sells should be kept partly filed With solu-
ton of Operas. ALI utensils, such "a 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.
Better still to burn them, il of little value.
All persons leaving the sick-room should be
compelled to battle well, and to put on
complete change of clothing. The physician
in attendance should do the same thing, or
wrap himself completely in linen buster
or gum overcoat, and tie handkerchief
around his neck, and these should be depos-
tied in SEINE clubhouse for use on each visit.
Fifth-No domestic animals, such as cats
and dogs, should be permitted TO enter the
sick-room. No person visiting case should
be permitted to 60 to any general assembly,
such as church meetings or school, until
permission is given by the attending ply
stefan. No letters should be sent from the
sick-room. Outhousse should be disinfected
every few days with eopperss.
Sixth-After recovery, patients should be
kept to their rooms at least two weeks after
all crusts have disappeared, and then bathed
and fires 4, clean garments put on.
Seventh-In case of death, there should
be no public funeral. The body
with a solution of zinc, four ounces to
half 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.
EightA--Aftsr death or recovery, the room
| should be emptied of its contents, and,
| while they are being treated as before di-
rected, the house should be thoroughly dis
infected by burning sulphur. All wooden
| articles such as chairs, tables and bed
| steads, and all articles which cannot be
boiled, must be left in the room, every posi-
bic opening stopped by strips of paper pasted
or crammed in them, and then putting about
five pounds of sulphur (roll) in an iron vessel
| with live Goals, 10 be left for twenty-four
hours. After this, it should be left open two
or three weeks, and then washed with soap
and water, or, what is better, plastered or
i whitew sshed. All articles not too valuable
should be burned, as we'll as the house, if but
hut. Especial attention should be directed
| to the sale or purchase of rags and waste
| paper by dealers, az the disease has been
conveyed long distances through the medium
of these commodities. Dealers should insist
on the vaccination of all persons handling
rags.
Ninth-Should the disease assume the pro.
portions 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 "a
take this step.
4 DIsINFECrANTs.
At the head of the list we place cleanli.
nees; water, air, soap for use in general, are
Invaluable agents.
| Burnins.-By no means neglect TO burn
i everything which cannot be satisfactoriIy
dtsinfected.
Boiting.-One of the most practical nd
efficient modes of disinfecting is boiling. Ar
ticles of infected clothing, bedding and other
things which should not be burned, and
when this mode is at all applicable, must
be thoroughly boiled for one or two hours,
according to the nature of the article.
Chloride Of Lime and Chorine.-There are
no better disinfecting agents than these W hen
an infected house, room, furniture, and any
i articles that cannot be burned or boiled, are
cooeerned. The chloride of lime must be
used freely. Let it be sprinkled as a powder
over the floors, and under the floors, if such
places are accessible. Let it also be mixed
| with water into thick cream. This may
be done in a saucer or a deep plate. Then
let moderately diluted sulphuric acid be
added until gases having a strong chlorine
odor are given off. A number of such yes.
sells may be exposed in the same room
Chlorine gas may be evolved as follows:
Take q plate, and half fill At with black
oxide of manganese broken up into pieces
as large as peas, cover them with muriatic
acid, and heat gently by placing the
| plate on hot brick or otherwise. The gas
is easily evolved, and will readily diffuse it.
self. Care must be taken not to inhale this
gas, as it is, unless greatly diluted, very
| poisonous.
| Copperas Soliaien.-Copperas (Sulphate
Iron,) two pounds 70 gallon OF water. Thi,
should be freely used by sprinkling al
around the premises and in the sewers and
cutters. 1t is better to prepare barrel of il
at once, by putting the iron in a basket, ano
suspending 1t in the water.
Sulphur.-Roll sulphur, five pounds tc
| q room, on hot embers. III an iron vessel il
not at hand, use a tub of water with tn,
sulphur kept out of the water on bricks Oh
| stones.
Zinc Disinfeetant. -Sulphate Zinc white
Vitriol,) one and one-half pounds to six gal
Ions OF water, and three-fourths OF pound O
salt added.
Chloride Zinc Disinfectant- Zinc
four drachms to the gallon OF water.
But remember one thing--disinfecting b.
fumigation or otherwise cannot compensat,
for want OF cleanliness or ventilation.
All goods too valuable TO be burned, o
which cannot be boiled, such as ailks, furs
carpets, etc., may be hung up in the room
while undergoing sulphur fumigation, ant
afterward exposed to the air and thorough,
beaten.