The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-12-03

1t. II there are other children In th,
house. they may escape the disease by
proper precautions. "a
The room ID which the patient is iso
lated should be upstairs, preferably
and az remote from living rooms al
possible. A sheet kept wet with dis
infectsnt and hung over the door Of
the sick.room will protect otter parts
Of the house against infection.
The mother or nurse should not min
gle with other members of the family,
If avoidable, and IL not, should wear a
washable garment completely protect.
ing the body, with cap for the hair,
to be removed when leaving the sick.
room. &i
The hands Of the nurse should be
thoroughly washed in the disinfectant
solution each time the patient or any.
thing which has been about the patient,
Is handled.
The remains of food or drink which
has been in the sick.room should be
burned or disinfected. The nurse, If
possible. should avoid eating or drink
ing In the sick.room.
The patient should be kept isolated
for two weeks after throat symptoms
have disappeared, for reasons previous.
ly stated.
If death occurs, the body, as soon as
possible, should be wrapped in a sheet
wet with the disinfectant, and should
not be again exposed to view. The law
requires its burial within twenty-four
hours after death, except by written
permission of the board of health. The
funeral mustsbe strictly private, and
no child allowed to attend.
DIs1NFECTION.
BY disinfection is meant the destruc.
tion Of the germ or organism which
causes the disease.
Dissolve corrosive sublimate in hot
water in the proportion of one drachm
to one gallon, and add one drachm of
permanganate of potash to give color
to the solution.
Label POISON.
The germs of diphtheria are readily
killed by this solution. They are also
killed by boiling water.
The discharges from the throat, nose
and mouth are specially dangerous and
must be cared for at once. 1t is we'll
to prepare number Of squares of old
soft cloth (old sheets or pillow cases) to
receive these discharges. The cloths
should be burned as soon as soiled. If
there is no fire in the sick. room it is
convenient to have small tub contain.
ing the disinfectant solution to receive
these cloths until they can be carried
from the room and burned.
The soiled clothing, bed linen, towels
napkins, etc, may be disinfected by
boiling for one hour. They should be
carried from the sick room wrapped in
a sheet wet with the disinfectant and
placed in boiling water without un-
wrapping. Dishes, knives, forks,
spoons. etc, brought into the sick.room
should be, on removal, at once placed
in boiling water and boiled for half an
hour.
When the patient has recovered, and
before he leaves the sick.room, he
should be bathed from head to foot in
the disinfectant solution halt of the
strength given above, special care being
given to the hair. Keep the disinfect
ant out Of the eyes.
Before removing quarantine the sick
room. and any other rooms which the
patient has occupied, must be disinfect-
ed. This must be done with intelli.
gence and care so that nothing which
may possibly be infected shall be
missed. The failure to properly carry
out disinfection often causes the disease
to linger in community year after
year.
Disinfection should be done under
the personal supervision of the health
officer or his assistant.
Anything which may be wetted
without injury may be disinfected and
saved by simply boiling it in water for
one hour. Care must be taken that the
article to be disinfected is entirely
covered with boiling water.
Rooms. and articles which cannot be
boiled. should be fumigated by sulphur.
The room must be as nearly sir-tight
as possible Stop all cracks about doors
and windows. Close fire, places. Closets
opening into the room should have
their doors left open. Clothing. bed
covers. etc.. should be hung on lines
stretched across the room. DO not pile
articles together, but arrange them 80
as to expose the greatest possible
amount to the sulphur fumes. Carpets
may be fumigated on the floor.
Use not more than four pounds of
roll sulphur broken into small pieces
for room ten feet square. and a pro-
portionstely larger amount for larger
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