The record-union., 1895-05-20
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE

[The essayist cites cases. but the RECORD
UNION cannot for brevity's sake give
them.
SANITARY ADvICE-wATER.
Guard against bad or improper house
drainage. examine the plumbing, see
that there are no leaking joints, defective
or insufficient traps, or forgotten, OPEN
mouthed waste-pipes, those deadly sewer
feeders OF nOxious gases of decomposi-
ton.
Unless the water supply is pure and
free from contamination, il is one OF the
greatest OF all sources OF danger to health.
In New York Its daily examination by
tho Health Department gives us the as
surance OF its purity, and any deleterlous
contamination is at once discovered. its
source investigated, and the remedy ap-
piled.
When water is forced into stationary
tanks on the tops of houses its liability
to contamination is considerable, unless
| tightly covered and the whole body fre-
quently drawn OFT. n sediment will
! deposit which renders it impure and
harmful. The tank should be frequently
einptled and thoroughly cleaned. All
| tank water should be boiled and cooled
before used for drinking or cooking pur-
poses. Filters only clarity and remove
sediment, but never destroy germs or
1llCTODeSs
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.
Infectious or contagious disease mani
fest should be isolated at once. Children
and members of the family, except the
immediate attendant, should be ex xcluded
from the room. Remove from the sick
room all textile fabrics, clothing. draper
les. carpets. etc., except absolutely
needed. The nurse should have special
suits of outer and under wear to be left
in the sickrOom when he or she goes out.
Hands, face and hair should be frequently
cleaned and some disintectant applied be-
fore leaving the room.
THE sICK-RoOM.
Keep disinfecting solution in vessels
| and into it put all rags. towels, ETC.. used
about the patient, and cover the vessel
we'll. Afterward boil the articles if too
valuable to be burned.
During the progress of the disease n o
| person should be allowed TO visit in the
sick-room, unless it might be a MEM
ber of the family, who should also be
properly guarded by special dress for
the occasion. When the patient is con-
valescent the body should be we'll bathed
with soap and water with a weak solu-
tion.of bichlOride of mercury Il to l,000
psrts) from head to feet, wrapped in a
fresh, clean sheet or blanket, and then
taken into another room, where a fresh,
clean suit can be put on.
DISINFECTIoN OF THE ROOM.
Without removing anything from the
sick-rOom, iL should be kept closed
until it is thoroughly fumigated
with sulphurous acid fumes for
several hours, after which the windows
can be opened and the room thoroughly
| aired. The bed, bedding and infected
clothing after the fumigation can now
be sprinkled with the sublimate solution,
the wall, ceiling, woodwork and floor
particularly in the cracks-washed
| with the same solution and left to air ex-
| posure for Il time. Such a bedding, sheets,
| pillow-casing, or wearing apparel as it
may be desirable to save for further use,
| must now have thorough boiling and
soap suds rinsing, then hung in the open
air to dry.
TOO MUCH CARE,
| And particularly with reference to eyery-
thing that has been exposed to the infec-
ton in the sickroo cannot be exercised.
In New York all disinfection, fumigation
and subsequent treatment of injected
articles, especially OF dIphtheria or scarlet
| fever, is performed at the disnfecting
station of the Health Department if de-
sired, without expense to the party, and
such articles as are not desired to be re-
turned will be cremated. There are some
OF these diseases which require most
careful and special treatment of infected
articles. especially scarlet fever and
diphtheria, whose specific bacilli seem
| to be SO diffusable and infective.
Isolation and thorough disin lection,
| the one to be absolute, the other perfectly
| performed under the direction OF an ex-
pert. have proved efficient and etfectual,
both in suppressing and preventing the
further spread of the disease.