The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-04-25
PREVENTION OF sNALL-POx

Recommendations from the State
Board OF Health of Tennessee
First. VAGINA all persons who have
not been vaccinsted within a year, and
continue TO do so until it takes, ''or until
il is proven the system is not suscepti-
BILE.
Second. When a case of smallpox OF
variOloid occurs, isolate il at once, pro-
vide nurses who have had the disease,
and remove all other persons from the
house. But keep all exposed persons
either together or under surveillance,
and, under no circumstances, allow
them to scatter abroad until after the
period of incubation. An old out
house, or, 10 coed weather, q tent should
be used as a hospital.
Third. All discharges frem the pa
tient, whether from the nose or mouth,
and especially the crusts from the pa
tient, should be burned as fast as col
lecied The night vessels should be
kept partly filed with solution Of cop
peras. All utensils, such as dishes,
spoons, etc, should be dipped in boil
ing water after use.
Fourth. After the recovery of the pa
tient, 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-ruOm should De compelled to
battle well, and put on a complete
change OF clothing. The physician in
attendance should do the same thing, or
wrap himself completely in linen dus-
ter or gum OvercOat, and tie a handker-
chief around his neck, and these should
be deposited in some clubhouse for use
on each visit
Fifth No domestic animals, such as
cats and dogs, should be permitted 10
enter the sick-room. No person visit
ing a case should be permitted to go to
any general assembly, such as church
meetings or school, until permission is
given by the attending physician. No
letters should be sent from the sick
room. Out-houses should be disinfect-
ed every few days with copperas.
Sixth. After recovery, patients should
be kept TO their rooms at least two
weeks after all crusts have disappeared,
and then bathed and fresh, clean gar
ments put on.
Seventh. In case of death, there
should he no public funeral. The body
should be wrapped in a sheet saturated
with a solution of zinc, four ounces to
half gallon of water, and placed in an
alright coffin, and removed from the
sick room directly IT, the place of bur
ial. The burial preparations must be
conducted by the health or local author
titles.
Eighth. After death or recovery, the
room should be emptied of its contents,
aud, while they are being treated as be-
fore directed, the house should be thor
oughly disinfected by burning sulphur.
All wooden articles, such as chairs,
tables, and bedsteads, and all articles
which cannot be boiled, must be left in
the room, every possible opening stop
ped by strips OF paper pasted or cram
med in them, and then putting about
five pounds of sulphur (rolD in an iron
vessel with live Goals, to be left for
twenty-four hours After this, il should
he left open two or three weeks, aud
then washed with soap and water, or,
what Is better, plastered or whitewshed.
Disinf ectInt5.-At the head of the list
we place CLEANLINESS; water, air, soap
for use in general, are invaluable agents.
BurHiRg.-By no means neglect to
burn everything which cannot be salts
factorily disiaIec ed.
BOItiRg.-One of the most practical
and efficient modes of disinfecting is
boiling. Articles 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 Chlorine There
are no better disinfecting agents than
these when an infected house, room,
furniture, and any articles that cannot |
be burned or boiled, arc concerned.
The chloride Of lime must be used free
ly. Let IL be sprinkled as a powder
over the floors, and under the floors, if
such places be accessible. Let il also
De mixed with water into Athick cream.
This may be done in a saucer or deep
plate. Then let moderately diluted sui |
phuric acid be added until gases hav-
ing n strong chlorine odor are given off.
C0Dperds SOLUTION .-COpperas (Sulphate
irony, two pounds to a gallon of water.
This should be freely used by sprink-
ling all around the premises and in the
sewers aud cutters 1t is better TO pre-
pare a barrel of il at once, by putting
the iron in a basket, and suspending il
in the water
lSulphur.-Roll sulphur, five pounds
to q room, on hot embers. If an iron
vessel is not at hand, use tub of water
with the sulphur kept out of TIE water
on bricks or stones.
Zinc nfectdnt.-Sulphate Zinc
white VitrioD, IL pounds to six gal
Ions of water, and three-fourths of a
pound of salt added.
Chloride Zinc Disinf Observation-Disclosures
Zinc, four drachms 10 the gallon of
water,
But remember one thing-disinfect-
ing by fumigatiOn or otherwise cannot
compensate for want of cleanliness or
ventilation.
All goods too valuable u be burned,
or which cannot be boiled, such as
silks, furs, carpets, etc, may be hung
up in the room while undere DING sui
phur fumigation, and afterwards ex-
posed To the air and thoroughly beaten.