Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-29
and 80 certified to by the operating physi-


| No time should be lost, but general vac
cination insisted upon. Fortunately 1t Is
| our great privilege to live in California, the
inhabitants Of which are too Intelligent and
well informed not to see the importance OF
| this measure when smallpox invades their
| town or city. Smallpox in q community
means the paralyzing of all trades and
| commerce. 1t means pecuniary loss, sick
ness, suffering, destitutiOn, deformity or
death. 1t means condition OF things that
| should be at once arrested. All employ
ers must take the initiative. and have
| every man in their employ yaccinated as
the condition upon which their employ
ment is continued. All railroad men, police
| officers and those connected with public
| offices should especially be protected, as
| they are constantly exposed through the
| travelling public to the germG OF the disease
| which may be lurking in the wayfarers'
| clothes or among their baggage. In short.
| it is the imperative duty of the local author
tiles to secure protection to all classes. that
none remain unprotected, to the imminent
| danger of their fellow citizens.
SMALLPOX IN THE HOUSE.
When, unfortunately, this occurrence has
taken place, have every member of the fam
lily vaccinated at once. Smallpox takes
seven to fourteen days after exposure before
l 1t becomes apparent Vaccine takes only
four to six days: If, therefore, you are i'm
mediately vaccinated after exposure you
will anticipate the disease and either avert
! it or SO modify it as to render 1t compare
lively harmless and mild.
The patient should be placed, If prac-
ticable, in the highest room in the house,
and as distant from the apartments of the
rest Of The family as possible. Here he
should have the most complete isolation
and ventilation that can be attained. The
room, before occupancy, should be stripped
of all unnecessary furniture, carpets, cur
tains, woolen goods and clothing, and the
utmost cleanliness observed, both with re-
gard to the patient and the room. Disin-
iectants may be constantly used; especially
should vessel containing chloride of lime
be placed at the bedside for patients to spit
into. The same should be used freely in
the vessels required for the reception of ex-
creta, which should be ut once removed
disinfectant solution should be kept in the
room, into which all soiled clothes could at
once be plut ged and removed for further
disinfection. Rags should be used TO wipe
and Immediately burned. All glasses, cups,
or other vessels used by the patient, must
be scrupulOusly cleansed and washed in a
disinfectant solution. No person should be
admitted into the room but those waiting
upon the patient, and sheet wrung out of a
strong disinfectant solution ought to be sus-
pended outside the door of the patients
room.
Smallpox is in its most contsgious condi-
ton when the scabs are matured, and no
Gonzales scent patient should be permitted
to mingle with his family until all the scabs
have fallen off and the skin quite clean.
In case of death, wrap the body in sheet
saturated with a strong solution of sulphate
out any unnecessary delay, without any
wake or public funeral.
DIsINFECTANT SOLUTIONS.
AS these solutions are within the means
of every one, the State Board of Health
thinks it well to familiarize the public
RnmnOeItInn.
Roll Sulphur (brimstone,) for fumigatiOn.
This is cheap and efficient substance for
fumigating rooms; it Is positively destruct-
ivet to disease germs, when efficiently used.
Sulphate of iron (copperas) dissolved in
the p proportion oil one and half pounds to
| the gallon of water, is cheap and reliable
| deodorizer and antiseptic for privies, cess
pools, sewers, etc.
ounces of sulphate and two ounces of COM
| mon salt to a gallon of water, is efficient
| and harmless for clothing, bed linen, blan-
kets, etc. 1t should be. used boiling hot.
and the articles to be disinfected plunged
| into it and thoroughly boiled.
Corrosive Sublimate, in the proportion OF
a quarter of an ounce to the gallon, is all
unsurpassed germicide and disinfectant,
but has the disadvantage of being excessive.
| ly poisonous, and therefore dangerous for
general use.
Carbolic acid is of uncertain strength, is
expensive, and experience has shown that
| it must be employed in comparatively large
quat titles to be of any use. 1t is also liable,
by its strong Odor, to give false sense OF
security.
HOW TO USE DIsINFEcTANTs.
1. In the sick room. The most available
agents are fresh air and cleanliness. The
clothing, 'towe's, bed-linen. etc, should, on
tub of the zinc solution, boiling hot, If pos
sible. All discharges from the patient
| should either be received in vessels con
tanning the copperas or corrosive sublimate
solution, or if this is impracticable, should
furniture, especially that which is stuffed,
carpets, and hangings, should be removed
from the room at the outset If possible;
otherwise they should remain for fumiga-
tiOn and treatment.
III. Fumigation with sulphur is the only
practical method of disinfectipg the house.
For this purpose the rooms to be disinfeCted
must be vacated. Heavy clothing, blankets,
be treated with the zinc solution, should be
opened ana exposed during fumigation, as
directed below: Close the rooms as tightly
as possible, stopping up every crevice and
keyhole; place the sulphur in iron pans
supported upon bricks placed in washtubs
containing little water, set it on fire with
alcohol or kerosene sprinkled upon it, and
allow the room to remain closed twenty
four hours. For room ten feet square at
least two pounds of sulphur will be re-
larger quantities will be necessary.
Ill. Premises, cellars, yards, stables,
cutters, privies,. cesspools, water closets,
sewers, drains, should be literally treated
eeVe @ i've Te copperas soaon u Gnep may be
| easily prepared by hanging basket con-
tanning about sixty pounds of copperas in
barrel of water.
burn all articles which have been in contact
with persons sick of infectious or contagious
diseases. Articles too valuable to be de-
stroyed should be treated as follows: Cot
ton, linen, fiannels, blank cts, ETC., should
tion; introduce piece by piece; secure thor
ough wetiing, and boil for half an hour.
Furs, silks, heavy woolen clothing. bedcov..
ers, and beds, which cannot be thus treated
with the zinc solution. should be hung in
the room during fumigation, their surfaces
fully exposed, and their pockets turned in
side out; afterwards they should be hung in
the open air-beaten and shaken. Pillows,
beds, stuffed mattresses, upholstered fur
piture, etc., should be cut open, the con-
tents spread out and thoroughly fumigated
Carpets are best fumigated on the floor, but
should afterwards be removed to the open
air ard thoroughly shaken and beaten.
FINALLY
If, from neglect or delay in enforcing
precautionary meas ures, the disease shows
a tendency to become epidemic, the public
and private schools must be closed, church
services suspended, and public sssemblages
of people, as at theaters. shows, circuses.
| skating Kinks, or other gatherings be pro-
hibited. Other towns or cities would be
fully justified in maintaining non-inter-
course quarantine against any place neglect
| ing to enforce the sanitary measures which
all past experience has heretofore demon.
strated to be effective in stamping out
this most loathsome and contagious Of all
contagious disorders.
GERHARD G. TYRRELL,
Permanent Secretary State Board Of
| Health.
BY order of the Board:
II. 8. ORME, M. D., President
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