The Press., 1895-02-21
For Contagious Diseases.

A set of rules has been promulgated by the board of health to guide those having charge of cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and the like
 DIsINFEoTANTs.
 1 1. Roll sulphur (brimstone) is the best for Immigration.
 9. Sulphate of iron (copperas) dissolved in water in the proportion of one and a half pounds to the gallon; for soil pipes, closets, sinks and drains.
 | 3. Sulphate of zinc and common salt dissolved together in water; four ounces of the sulphate of zinc and two ounces of salt to the gallon; for clothing, bed linen, etc.
 4. Solution of corrosive sublimate, made by disolving corrosive sublimate (bichloride of mercury) eight grains to the pint of water. This is useful to dis infect spittoons and other vessels in the sick room, and to receive the discharges of patients. It is dangerous poison and should not be used except by the advice and direction of your attending physician.
 HOW TO USE DIsINFEOTANTs.
 In the sick room: 1. The best and most available agents are fresh air and cleanliness. The clothing, towels, bed linen, etc., should, on removal from the patient, and before they are taken from the room, be placed in pail or tub of the zinc solution, boiling hot. All dis charges should be received in vessels con- taining the corrosive sublimate or copper as solution. When that is impracticable they should be covered immediately with the solution and all vessels used about the patient should be cleansed with the solution. All stuffed furniture, carpets and hangings should be taken from the room at the outset. Whatever is allowed to remain should be retained in the room during Immigration. Persons in contact with patients sick with diphtheria should use disinfectant gargles.
 g. Fumigation with sulphur is the most practicable method for disinfecting the house. The room to be disinfected should be closed as tightly as possible. Stop up the windows, doors, chimneys, ventilators, etc.; place, the sulpeur in iron pans, supported on bricks placed in wash tubs, in which there is one or two inches of water. Set fire to it by means of coals or little alcohol poured over it. Keep the room tightly closed for twenty -four hours, then open the windows and leave them open as long as possible. For fumi- gatiOn use at least three pounds of sul- phur for every 1000 cubic feet thus a room ten feet square would need three pounds of sulphur. Chlorine gas may be used in the same way.
 BODY AND BED CLOTHING.
 3. It is best to burn all articles that have been in contact with persons sick with contagious or infectious diseases. Ar t1cles too valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows: a. Cotton, linen flannels, blankets, etc., should be treated with boiling hot zinc solution and then boiled for at least half hoor. b. Heavy articles, wOolens, silks, furs, and the like, should remain in the room during the sul- phur Immigration and subsequent airing.
 ISOLATION.
 4. Persons sick with contagious dis eases should be placed in a room at the top of the house if practicable, and no one should be allowed to enter the sick room except the necessary attendants. All visitors must be rigidly excluded.
 5. If request is sent to the inspector he will personally attend to the disinfec- tion and Immigration of the premises.
 It is regarded as a settled fact in Wash ington that if Postmaster-General Bissell retires from the cabinet William l.. Will son of West Virginia will succeed him.