Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-15
CHOLERA.

The State Board of Health has issu-
ed the following article:
The situation in Vermont as regards
threatened outbreak OF Cholera calls
for precautions rather than alarm.
The secret of success in dealing with
the disease is in knowing something of
its nature beforehand and acting intel
hgently al its first appearance.
Cholera is an infectious disease and
is transmissible
The poison of the disease is in the
discharges of the patient, and can be
carried in various ways and by various
articles to the well. The least soiling,
by any of the discharges from the sick,
of linen, clothes, articles of food, wa
ter, milk, knives, forks, spoons or
dishes, of the hands or clothing of at
tendants, may be the means of convey
ing the disease to well persons. To
produce the disease in well persons, the
poison must gain access to the stom-
ach. This may occur by eating, drink
ing or smoking in the house where the
disease is; by taking into the mouth
food or drink that has been in such a
house; by eating or drinking anything
that has been prepared or handled by
an attendant, or one who has been in
such house; or by using eating uten-
sils that have been handled by such an
attendant, or been in such a house.
Persons otherwise perfectly well, those
who are temperate, and those whose
organs of digestion are healthy are
much less liable to the disease.
PRECAUTIONS.
General. Cholera is preyentable.
Cleanliness is the safeguard. Every
village and neighborhood should be
watchful of its streets and public places.
All filth should be removed from dwell
ings and their vicinity. Manufacture
ing establishments, slaughter houses,
cheese factories and tenement houses
should be watched and kept clean and
wholesome. Drains, cess-pools and
farmyards should be cleaned often and
disinfected. The closets, sewers and
alleys in and about public buildings,
hotels, schools and places of business
should be watched continually. Sources
of public water supply should be care
fully guarded.
Personal.-Be temperate in eating
and drinking avoid all excesses.
Guard against anxiety of mind, over
work and all irregularities OF life.
Battle frequently, eat well-cooked food,
and drink only boiled water and milk.
In the presence of the disease eat or
drink nothing that can in any way
have been contaminated by the sick.
Food by which the disease-germs are
readily carried-such as fruit, vegeta-
bles, milk and water-should be only
taken after thorough cooking or boil
ing. BE especially careful of milk and
water. Attendants and those necessa-
rily in the house of the sick should not
touch with mwashed hands food,
drink, eating or drinking utensils, ci-
gars, pipes or anything that will be
put into the mouth.
For diarrhoea, or any arrangement
of the stomach or bowels, call physi-
clan at once.
In an emergency or until physi-
clan can be secured, the following is a
safe remedy: Laudanum and spirits
of camphor, each one o., tincture of
capsicum aud water, each two o., of
which mixture an adult may take a |
in wineglass of water
once in three or four hours.
All clothing, bedding, eating utensils
and other articles about the sick per-
son, should be placed in boiling water
Or in one of the disinfectant solutions
given below, or should be destroyed
by fire. The sick person should be
rigidly quaranfined, with a competent
nurse, in large, well-ventilated room.
No one should enter this room except
The nurse and doctor, and no one
should enter the house except from ne
,essity.
DISINFECTANTS.