Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-11-22

other things that are not needed in 1t
Dogs. cats, birds and fowls should bt
kept out of the room, and even out OF
the house. The patient should have
plenty of fresh air, night and day. ii
possible heat the room with an open fire
If there is n fire place have fire in it,
even if you must use other heat. A steve
makes the worst kind of heat in sick
room. If stove must be used, put a pan
or kettle Of water on it. If you can dc
so place the bed near the :center of the
room without letting the air blow direct
ly on thcspaticnt.
3. The discharges from the nose and
mouth of the patient should be taken on
clean rags and burned at once.
All knives, forks, spoons, glasses, cups
and plates used by the patient must be
put into Boiled water at once.
A pail or tub of water, with a teaspoon
full of carbolic acid to gallon of WAGER,
should he kept in the room and all clio
| thing, blankets, sheets, towels, pillow
slips rnd other cloth articles used about
the patient or in the room should be put
into this as soon as they are used and
before they are taken from the room.
| Then they must be taken out and boiled
at once, Use old blankets on the bed.
4. If you can do so, employ a profess
sional nurse for the patient. No more
than two persons should go into the pa
TENTS room, and these persons should
keep away srom other members of the
family. If one of these persons has to
go away from he-house, he or she should
change the clothing and wash the hands
face and hands, face and hair with dis
inf nptnnt md FL 10 n xra
riety of disinfcctant soaps, sold by drug
gists; use the one recommended by the
attending physician.
8. SO long as any one in the house has
diptheria throw into the privy vault ev-
cry day shovelful or two of unslacked
lime.
6. A person who has had an attack Of
diptheria may spread the disease for
about six weeks from the beginning Of
the sickness. Such person should not as
sociate with others nor go TO school or
church, nor to any public meeting until
the throat is entirely well and the sore
ness on the lips and nose are healed. Be
fore going to school or to any meeting,
the person should have a health certif-
cate from the physician orhealth officer,
setting forth that proper precautions
have been taken dvring the sickness and
that the Eperson is believed to be free
from danger of conveying the disease to
others.
7. All the clothing of the sick person
should be disinfected before it is worn
again. The clothing the patient was
wearing when taken sick should be dis
infected at once and put away.
8. After recovery or death all articles
worn by or that have como in contact
with the patieut, together with the room
and all its contents should be thorough
ly disinfected by burning sulphur in rhe
following manner.
Paste strips or sheets of paper over the
keyholes, window cracks, door cracks,
fire places, stove holes, and other open
ings. Have all windows and doors shut
All the articles in the room that can
not be wrshed must be spread out on
chairs or racks. Mattresses should be
opened and set on edge; window shades
and curtains spread out full length. If
there is trunk or chest in the room
open it, but let nothing stay in it; open
the pillows so that the sulphur fumes
can reach the feathers.
Take out of the room ony wire mat
tress, piano, sewing machine or other
machine; sulphur fumes injure fine iron
or steel.
Use 3 lbs of sulphur for every 900 Gu
bic feet in the room. A room 10 IT long
10 feet wide and 10 feet high hos 1000
cubic feet. For closet half as large use
pound and half of sulphur.
Burn the sulphur in an iron vessel; set
the vessel in tub with 3 inches of wa
ter in it (the tub; moisten the SULPHUR
with alcohol and fire it with a lighted
match; when the sulphur begins to burn
close the room tightly for "a hours.
At the end of "a hours open the wind
ows, top and bottom, and air the room
for day or two.
Take out the clothes and other things
that have been fumigated and put them
in tide sunshine and air for several DAYS.
Take up the carpet, have it beaten and
air itfor about week.
While the room Is being aired, brush
the walls and ceiling and then scrub
paint, all woodwork and floors with ley
soap and hot water.
1t is safer to'burn straw, husk, moss.
or excelsior mattress filling.
The outer clothing worn by those who
have nursed the sick should be fumigat-
ed with sulphur; all clothing that can
be washed should be boiled for at least
one hour, -