The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-23

except by importation, and then only
after ample warning.
What can be done IN the tOdy OF
| prevention IOcaIy3 Much may be
| done if the officers of health, or the
| properly constituted authorities do
| their duty. Cholera, as was said be-
/ fore, Is a preventable disease; its
habitat is among a crowd; it revels
| in filth and decomposing organisms,
| but failing to find suitable conditions
! for its growth and maintenance 1t dies
out. Consequently, the very first
! thing to be done is for each individual
! to see that has house, clubhouse, and
yard is put into a good sanitary condi.
ton. Do not wait for any health
| officer, see to it yourself. Have your
[ drains cleaned out and flushed with
| water; your privy or cesspoOl emp
tied and disinfected Immediately. See
that your cellar is cleared of all de-
caying substances, have 1t thoroughly
| whitewashed, and all filth, rags, etc.,
burned. If you have we'll see that
water thereof is not contaminated by
drainage from the house or outhouses.
If you have the slightest suspicion
that it is, boil the water before using,
or, better still, shut up that well and
dig another away from all chance
| of such contamination. If you use
| river water, which is more or less
polluted, see that it is boiled before
drinking it, and you will save your
health for the trouble. Avoid crowd
ing in sleeping rooms. See that each
! room is properly ventilated, nothing
being so conducive to disease as an
overcrowded and i'll ventilated apart
ment. Plenty of fresh pure air, pure
water, and wholesome food, with
household and personal cleanliness,
will 90 more to prevent the access Of
cholera to your dwelling than ali the
supplications of the credulous, or the
nostrums of the charlatan. While
there is danger of cholera, or, indeed,
any epidemic disease, developing in
your midst, it is an act of prudence
to avoid excessive fatigue from any
source, as the system when tired or
exhausted is much more liable to in
fection and less able to resist it than
in other conditions. 1t is also indis-
pensable that the stomach and bowels
be kept in healthy state by avoiding
all unripe fruit, decaying vegetables,
fish, flesh or any food that is not per
fectly sweet and fresh. Temperance
in all things should be enjoined, and
especially in alcoholic beverages, as it
is found by experience that the in
temperate, or those addicted to drink
ing Intoxicating fluids habitually are
era. Nature knows no mercy in deal
ing with the viOlatOrs of Natures
laws; if her laws are tranSgressed the
punishment is swift and certain.
Food should not be kept in the same
room with the sick from any infec-
tiOus disease; neither should that un-
consumed by the sick be used by
others, but either burned or disposed
of in some other equally safe way.
If cholera should appear in your
dwelling, the first thing to do is to
isolate the patient, put him in COM
Portable room without carpets and
with as little furniture as is consistent
with comfort, disinfect Immediately
all discharges from the body, and
either burn or bury them, do not
throw them into either privy or cess
pool to poison your family or your
neighbors; see that the patient has
medical attendance promptly; do not
wait ten or twelve hours to see if he
will get better - delay in cholera
means death. Cholera always gives
tory diarrhpa; this is the favorable
opportunity to arrest the disease, the
attack is then under the control of
medicine judiciOusly chosen and ad-
ministered; q few hours delay and it
will have passed from comparative
safety to extreme danger, perhaps be-
yond the power of remedies to save; |
act, then, promptly and intelligently, |
and valuable life may be rescued |
from fatal illness.
If there is no medical man within |
easy call and person be attacked |
with premonitOry diarrhna, place him |
in bed at once, apply warmth to the |
feet, a mustard poultice over the abdo- |
men, and give teaspOonful of pare
gOric (which is to be found in every |
family, every hour until your medi- |
cal attendant arrives. Do not give |
indiscriminately, stimulants-brandy, |
red pepper, camphor, ginger, etc, /
advised by busy bodies wait for
skilled medical advice-more people
are killed by quackery and meddle-
some trif1ing than by disease.
If travelling, avoid as much as posi-
BILE using urinals or water closets at
railway stations; they are constant
sources of infection, if not properly |
taken care of and daily disinfected.
Remember that cholera is always,
in this country imported; it seeks
crowds, and follows, as rule, the line
of travel; railway companies and lines
of transportation generally, should see
that all urinals, water closets, and
baggage rooms belonging to the COM
pany, or about their premises, are
daily cIeansed, purified, and disin-
fected.
DIsINFECTIoN AND DIsINFECTANTs.
DisinfectiOq is the destruction of |
the pOisons of infectious or contagious
diseases. DeOdOrizerS, or substances
which destroy smells, are not necessa-
riIy disinfectants, and disinfectants
do not necessarily have an odor. Dis
infection cannot compensate for |
want of cleanliness or of ventilation.
DIsINFECTANTs TO BE EMPLOYED. |
Roll Sulphur (brimstone) for fumi-
CATION; this is a cheap and efficient /
Substance for fumigating rooms; it is
positively destructive to disease
germs, when efficiently used.
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