Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-11-13
DIPHTHERIA-sC SCARLET FEVER.

and fatal disease, and each year causes
many deaths in our State. For this rea-
son, and that it is TO large extent pre-
ventable disease, the State Board of Health
have issued this document, hoping to dis
seminate among the people such facts
known about the disease, as may restrict
its spread and prevent its occurrence.
Diphtheria is q contagious and infectious
disease, and the strict observance OF the
following rules and precautions are urged
upon all who may come in contact with it.
!. When child has sore throat with
fever, and especially when diphtheria is
present in the neghborhood, it should be
kept apart from others until competent
physician has determined it is not diph
iberia.
2. When q person is known to be sicl;
with diphtheria, he should Immediately be
separated from all others, excepting his
attendants and removed to a room which
should be specially prepared for his occu-
pancy.
3. This room should be prepared by re
| moving from it all superiiuOuS furniture
| carpets, extra clothing, books, window cur
| tains and all other similar articles not
need:d in the room. 1t should be as re
| mote as possible from the family rooms
preferably, in the upper story-and cart
|
| fresh air, without exposing the patient tC
direct drafts.
T. A card with "Diphtherian on it in large
plain letters should be placed in conspic
uous position on the house in which there
| is person sick with the disease No chile
should be allowed to enter the house.
| 5. No one should be admitted to the sich
| room, except the necessary nurses and at
| tendants
6. No food or drink which has been il
the sick room should be partaken of by tht
well The dishes carried in should bC
washed separately.
| z. Under no circumstances should tht
bed clothes or the patients body linen b,
mixed with the other soiled clothing, or b'
| admitted to the general wash without be
| ing first thoroughly disinfected.
T. All persons recovering from diph
iberia are dangerous, and should not b
permitted TO attend school, church, or an,
public assembly until, in the Judgment 0
a careful physician, they are no longer
source Of contagion.
8. No opublic funeral should be held 0
any person dying Of diphtheria. In n
case should any child be permitted t
attend.
DESTRUCTION.
Whom e case of diphtheria occurs, let tn
=
pared at oncce
Solution No. f.-Dssolve chloride of lime
of the best quality, in soft water, in tn
proportion of four ounces to the gallon.
Solution No. 2.-Dissolve sulphate of iro
known also as copperasl in hot water, i
the proportion Of two pounds to the gallol
lt has been demonstrated that cOpport
is not properly disinfectant 1t is an e,
cellent antiseptic, aTresting putretactiV
decomposition, but does not destroy I'll
vitality OF disease germs or the infectin
power of material containing them. HenC
it must not be substituted for Solutions M
or No 81
RtleS for Di,iHtcctj0H-l. The dischargt
from the throat, mouth and nose are e.
ceedingly poisonous and should be receive
on soft cloths which must be immediatel
burned or immersed in Solution No l.
2. The discharges from the kidneys al
bowels, and vomited matters, are also da
gerous, ana should be received in a vesS
: containing Solution No. !. Retain in u
: vessel fifteen minutes, when the conten
! may safely be thrown into the wat
, closet or privy vault
t 3, The soled clothing, bed linen, towel
: etc. should at once, before being carrie
= from the sick room, be placed in boilh
, water and boiled for thirty minutes,
for any reason, this can not be done. tht
| may 10 eoalIod ia tho folio wing solution
ISOLATION No. 3.-Dissolve corrosive sub
mate in hot water, in the proportion of tV
q ounces to the gallon. Label poison, a.
. koon in n wooden or earthen vessel
Take two fluid ounces or a halftencu
ful Of this solution to one gallon of watt
= and LET the articles TO ho disinfacted
, thorouphly soaked in this. ramaining il
morsed at least two hours; they may tbr
| be wrung ont and sent 10 the wash,
t Tho hody of n Derson who has di
r of dinhtheria should ba washed with s
5 lution No and wrapped in a sheet W
: with the same, The hodv should be burj
l at once. md in no case should be expos
: to view
, / After death or recovery of tho sic
| the room. furniture. and other coutcu
not TO be DESTROYED must be thorourh
disinfectcd.
d. II is best 10 burn all articles viii,
Q have been in contact with the perso
q Those foo valuable IN dastrnv npv
=. treated rs follows.
GliortjcIes which can he vyosbod m,
be trentod according to Rule 2. uuder ID
y infection
e Clothing and bedding which can II
! be washed NAV be disinfectod bv cSDosu
to dry heat for three or four hours.
ten,naro+ura Of 13n : l'ab uust ha mai
At
fTealv exnosed Q, not folded or arronr,
in ni5es or bundles
The room aud all articles in il whi
;. con NO, he traatnd Inv eithar nj tbe ohn,
5 methods mus hn tboronrhlv frmirotad
, Tho cou+ants NJ thn room should ba
| arranged as 10 eynose the greatest amou
' ~ surface "a tbe notion Of the disinfectar
! Heavy woolen clotbipp silks fnrs s,utT,
Nod c6vers and simiIar articles shonld
buuT nm IN tba room and noclets turn,
insida nut pillows mattrassas unhoIster
furnitura etc must he cnt oman md +
, contants snrood out for fnmipotin
, Carnefs ore bost fumigatej on the no,
, Altar fnmiaation these articles mnSt r
he hung in the omen air and thorough
, hooten and shaken.
, s 10 disinfect a room by fumigatio
: nroceed as follows:
~ Closa tbe anortmept as completely
possiblc, stopnine ali openings thrSu,
which the rai miesht escann Thorouph
damncn ~" thee hef foor walls and furnitura
. For room about fen fant snua,
/ toLa tbrae nounds of S,tlnbnr hrol,cn in
. snioI, f,.n n,y,nerts For larrar rooms usa
u nrnnort;nnataiv Iarcer omSnnt Of sulnhr
P,+ II ;rtn an i,on nm md 70 avoida do
!, oar from fro snnport the nan on brirl
SSIacad in a tnb cpptaining n few inches
rnter MoiSten tbo snln3ur with alroh
and set on trc heinT carefnl not 10 braat
tba fnmes of the hurninr sulnhur. VIII
certain the SULPHUR is burning well. lea
: tba room cIoSa the door and allow I
a room to be tightly closed for several houi
c. Open all the windows and air I
, room thoroughly for several hours. Ii t
wall and ceilings are papered remove I