Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12

veiuasis Ctreular Issued ~ a.. 80.
Beard e Health. sss


Snolera' whenever it has left its A.i.tic
nome and overrun and prevailed ia Rurone
!. did last year, has invariably. .oone,
or later, found its way to our own coun,,v
10 view Of the possibility of having to do,
win Asiatic cholera in our own common
wealth, the State Board Of Health think. !,
prudent to issue circular entitled "practic.,
Facts about Cholera" Following is an .b.
stract:
Cholera is an infections disease. lint :. :.
infectious only in certain WAYS II !.
catching" ms small PIX and scsrla, 49,.
are understood to be. How can we accom-,
Tor this parad0xical behavior If cholers5 Tn
tms way: The cholera poison exist prin-
c'paiiy In the discharges from the bowels and
III tne v"mitrd matter. This excreted con-
taeium Il said not to be in an actively pois.
onous con.iition when it first leaves the bodv
put requires little time to 60 through f-r-
mentative stage during which its maliynan.v
Is developed. Conditions which favor the
development of the poison are exclusion Of
fresh air. darkness. moisture, and, more than
| all Else. filth conditions.
III THIS bison Is completely DESTROYED "A
soon as 1t leaves the alimentary canal. there
no danger of the patients being source
OF infection to other persons. But, il the de-
]ections are thrown, for instance, into the
privy vault, the cholera germs find all the
favoring conditions above named for their
development and increase.
| Farther facts in relation to the extention Of
| cholera are these: Privy vaults, cess. polls.
sink drains, heaps of manure, filth-sodden
| earth, and other unclean places, once con-
taminated with the cholera-germ, may remain
sources of danger for some time, giving off
their poison, which, by being breathed in.
may be mixed with the saliva and be swal-
lowed. Articles of clothing from cholera
| regions, especially if soiled with the cholera
| excreta, may carry the disease long distances
BE treasured by the tact that cholera comes
not from mysterious epidemic constitution
OF the atmosphere, but that it comes, as ex-
planned above, in accordance with certain
! laws which are nov well understood Re.
memoering this. all unnecessary alarm may
be avoided-onlv that salutary fear is desira-
BILE which shall lead each individual to avoid
and remove those conditions which favor not
| ouly cholera but typhoid fever and other dis
| eases.
In the absence of q much needed, syste-
matte supervision of this matter by the gen.
| eral government. grave responsibility rests
upon STATE and local authorities Especially
| at por's engaged in foreign commerce, vigil
lance should he constant and actiop prompt,
when required. If cholera should be allow ed
| to effect landing. the soil and the water may
he contaminated and the stamping OUT of
the disea Sc made impossible.
SPECIAL RULES.
I. Experience has abundantly proved that a
tenn district Nth a clean soil pure air aid pure
10 ter man bid defiance to cholera Therefore the
rul. il imperative to search tor and abate all filth
| nuisances Remove all de"omposing animal and
veg-ta ln substances. Empty all prlvy vaults, and
(copp"ra>). eat all 's-ppo's an sink drains in
the anne way Venilate 70 ,ms and keep the cell ar
nry and well ven ated We sure there Is no filthy
| sOakage into the well or other water supply.
= Never neglect thu preliminary diarihe Dur
ing thi first stage the disease Is usually Gu able
! B. II possibl turn all discharges coming from
| the patient well all -Oed cloths otter art.
| lies which are not too valuable.
A. If the discharges cannot b. burned, do not, up
on any consider ltion. throw them upon the ground
| or into the privy vault Have them passed into q
vessel contain several tim their own bulk of
| saturated sOluiiDn of sulpha of iron or (
a solution OF corrosive sutmate Il part 10
1000 and then poured into deep, row hole in
the ground remote from all buildings water sup
| ply.
s. All oiled c'o'hes fr"m the cholera patent. be.
fore after death recovery, should be,
possible, developed IT, sheet wet with the corrosive
subIima luton, carried TO The laundry and boiled
| Immediately.
| g. Upon the death Of a cholera patient, the body
should be Immediately enveoped in sheet wet wi h
| the corrosive subimate soluti n, account to
BE- att rward OPP ned. and buried privately as soon
| as possible.
Att.r death or recovery the room should be fu-
inflated thoroughly by burr ing sulphur Alter re.
naming clio ed enty -four hours thoroughly venti.
late, then tear off all paper and hurn it, ash down
the walls with hot sOapsuds. Then re-pant and re-
| paper.
Directions for the preparation of disinfec-
tants are appended