The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-07-02

tect other members of the family,
the attendants, and the community.
I'd. A solution of chloride of
lime, eight ounces to the gallon of
water, should be provided in guam
tity. and quart of this should be
put in the bed pan or vessel each
time before it receives the dis.
charges, and should be well stirred
and allowed to stand in the vessel
at least an hour before it is buried.
An equivalent solution of creolin,
or IA thick white wash made from
the fresh quicllime, may be used
in the same way when the chloride
of lime can not be obtained, but
with these at least two hours will
be required TO complete the disin-
lection.
Sd. SOiled he'd or body linen
should remain in the chloride of
lime solution for an hour, and may
then be safely put in the family
wash. SOiled paper or clothes used
about the patient should be imme-
diatcly burned. Attendants should
wash the hands frequently, and the
lips, and rinse the mouth always
before eating. No one should par
take of any food which has stood
in the sick room. A II of these pre-
cautions should be continued until
the recovery is complete and until
all diarrhea has ceased.
18th. Typhoid fever is not con-
tagious in the sense commonly
understood, and if the precautions
above indicated are faithfully and
intelligently carried out, case
may be treated in any family or
community with perfect safety.
If others have the disease, it will
be because they were infected from
the same source as the patient, or
contracted it else where. The same
precautions should be observed in
dysentery and all other diarrheal
diseases, including summer COM
plant in children.
9th. All well water and unfiltered
water from rivers draining inhab-
| tied areas, where typhoid fever and
| diarI heal diseases are likely to
occur at any time, and milk stored
| in cans or vessels washed in such
water. should be looked upon as
suspicious. and should always be
! boiled before it is drunk by any one
not immune from typhoid fever.
! In the absence of reliable. fill
tered, public water supply, care
| fully collected and properly stored,
cistern water is safest.
9th. The windows and doors Of
all dwelling houses, and especially
of the kitchen and dining room,
should always be well screened,
and the flies actually kept out.
Unless this is done, a carelessly
managed case of typhoid fever. or
other diarrheal disease, even mile
or more away, may be source of
danger on account of flies. AS
mosquitoes are now known to be
! the carriers of malaria the same
precautions will protect from this
disease also.
The universal and effectual prac-
tice OF these precautions would re-
ouire intelligent care and some ex-
pense, but would result in the
practical disappearance of one OF
our most common and fatal domes-
tic pestilences, which is not only a
disgrace to our civilization, but an
annual scourge and tax upon the
people of Kentucky in comparison
with which yellow fever and chOl.
era. plague and other exotic
dis eases, so feared by our people,
sink into insignificance.
Copies of this circular, and OF
others in regard to the prevention
of consumption, diptheria and seal
let fever, may be had by any one
for free distribution upon applica-
ton to the board at Bowling Green.
BY order of the board.
j. NJ. MATHEWS, NJ. D.,
President,
J. N. MCCORMACK, NJ. D.,