Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-08-10
SITNSTROKE AND DROWNING
INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE
NEW YORK BOARD OF HEALTH.

NEW OhA 6OAhD OF hEALIH.
What to Do When People are Over
come by Heat Reviving Persons
Rescued From the Water.
HHE following instructions for
the treatment of persons who
have received a sunstroke, or
who have been taken from the
water IN a drowning condition, are
issued by the New York Board of
Health, and as they are appropriate to
any locality we publish them in full:
sUNsTRoKE.
Any one overcome by the heat
should be Immediately removed to the
nearest shade, and the collar of shirt
or dress should be loosened. Send
Immediately for the nearest physician,
and give the person cool drinks of
water, black tea or coffee, if able to
swallow
If the skin is hot and dry, place the
person IN sitting position against a
tree, wall, or anything that will be a
support to the back; sponge with or
pour cold water over the body and
limbs, and apply to the head pounded
ice wrapped in towel or other cloth.
If there is no ice at hand, keep cold
cloth on the head, and pour cold water
on it as well as on the body.
If the person is pale, very faint and
pulse-feeble, lay him on the back, let
him inhale ammonia for few seconds,
or give him teaspoonful of aromatic
spirits of ammonia or tincture of GIN
ger in two tablespoonfuls of water.
Use no cold water upon the head or
body, but rub the hands and feet and
apply warm applications to the same
until the circulation is restored.
DROWNING.
Loosen the clothing; place the
face downward, with the forehead
resting on one of the wrists, and the
face turned to one side. Open The
mouth; seize the tongue between the
fingers, covered with handkerchief
or piece of cloth, and draw it forward
between the teeth; clear the mouth
and throat from mucus by passing the
foreinger, covered with handker-
chief or piece of cloth, far back into
the mouth, thus opening free pass.
age to the windpipe.
2.--Turn the body face upward,
shoulders resting on a folded coat or
pillow; keep the tongue drawn for
ward; raise the arms backward and
upward to the sides of the head this
expands the chest and allows the air
to enter the lungs; then slowly move
them downward, bending them SO that
the elbows will come to the sides and
the hands cross on the pit of the
stomach, and press them gently but
strongly against the sides and chest
this forces the air out of the lungs.
Continue these two movements (which
produce artificial breathing) very de-
liberately about ten or twelve times in
a minute, and without ceasing, until
the patient breathes naturally, or un-
til satisfied that life is extinct.
While this is being done little
friction on the chest may be produced
by rubbing gently with warm flannel.
and the body may be stripped and
wrapped in dry blankets,
After natural breathing begins, con-
tinue very gently. for a few minutes,
the two movements which produced
artificial breathing.
After natural breathing is fully re-
stored, give the patient teaspoonful
of brandy, hot sling or tea, two OF
three times minute, until the beat
ing of the pulse can be felt at the wrist.
Rub the arms and legs upward, and
the feet and hands with warm or dry
flannel.
Apply hot cloths to the body, legs
and arms, and bottles of hot water to
the feet.
CAUTION
l. Do not be discouraged if anima.
tion does not return in few minutes.
The patient sometimes RECEIVERS after
hours of labor.
9. Do not allow the tongue to fall
back and close the windpipe while the
arms are being worked.
3. Do not rub the legs and arms un'
til natural breathing is restored.
4. Do not put any liquid in the
mouth until natural breathing is fully
restored.
5. Do not roll the body nor handle
it roughly.
6. Do not allow the head to hang