The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-30

in the sick room. Exclude cats, dogs, and
other pets, including birds. from the ROOM
carry some of the contagious diseases.
Isolation to be effective must be COM
essary attendants should be allowed to
enter the sick room. These should wear
water. The hands should be rinsed In
disinfecting fluid immediately after every
should avoid inhaling the patients
Group. if the patient coughs in the at
tendants face she should at once wipe
the face with a cloth wet with a disin-
''The floor of the sick room must not
oe rry sW ody thssea1 OF u, sTee Wee go
out of the .disinfectant. And instead OF
d dosng o a aoossssDIe iSa %r
frames and Lodges, tables. chairs, the ex
posed parts of the bed framedsn4nid be
milk, water, food, ETC., intended for an
ceptacles previously placed outside the
nouse and in no case should direct trans
carriers to those within.
All dishes and table utensils used in
the sick room must be placed in boiling
water or rinsed In a distnfecting nu1d be-
MONEY is NS Vehicle sn for sns spreading con-
received from injected houses or persons
Moneys or valuable papers may be en-
trusted to agents of the health depart
"Fiowers brought to the sick should not
be thrown out but they should be burned
1 In case ses Of death y from contagious dis
ease, the following are the rules which
the board has established for the conduct
''In case of death from contagious dis
ease the body should be placed IN a coffin
ately sealed and not again opened.
funeral should be held within SO hours
after death. and should be private.
by private funeral is meant one that
attended
such adults as are necessary to aid tn, the
dren, should not be exposed to the con-
Scarlet fever, or scariatina- These two
terms refer to the same disease COM
9lete isolation should be enforced ti. az
is completed and there is entire absence
neys. The time rekuired for peeling viii
cases in which peeiing is not noticeable
with absence of ear, nose, throat, kid
be isolated not less than four weeks. In
should be the period Of enforced isolation,
and if ear nose, throat. glands or kid
neys are diseased prolong the time or
Measles fatal disease among young
children. The average death rate among
children under two Years OF age is about
show a death rate of 30. 30 and even 50 per
the rule and longer if there is present
bronchitis, Inflammation OF throat, nose
or abscess of ear.
''Whooping cough-also very destructive
in child life. The average death rate Is
about Is per cent. in children under one
year of age. In some epidemics the death
rate has been 80 per cent. Death from
this disease is rare after child is four
years old
1.-The aim should be to protect especial
ly children under four years of age from
contagion of measles and whooping
cough. The period of isolation for
whipping cough should be till after the
spasmodic stage of cough. which Is usu-
ally eight weeks.
''Mumps should be isolated three weeks.
or ten days after all swelling has sub
sided
neutrality-suspicious. till the scabs are
all off and the skin smooth.
.Smallpox-The department Of health
takes complete charge of these cases so
far as quarantine and disinfection
concerned. Fifteen days after all scabs
have disappeared is the shortest limit for
quarantine"