The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1906-08-25

the public health:
1. When it Is known or sus-
pected that person has typhoid
fever, he should be placed in a
large, we'll ventilated room, with
the windows and doors we'll
screened, and such preparation
should be made from the first day
for the thorough and systematic
disinfection of all discharges
from the bowels and kidneys as
will protect other members of the
family, the attendants, and the
community.
2. A solution of chloride of
lime, eight ounces to the gallon
of water, should he provided III
quantity, and quart of this
should be put in the bed-pan or
vessel each time after it receives
the discharges, and should be
we'll stirred and allowed to stand
in the vessel at least an hour
before it is buried. An equiva-
lent solution of creolin, or a thick
white-wash made from the fresh
quicklime, 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 dis
infection.
3. Soiled bed 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 Immediately burned.
Attendants should wash the hands
frequently, and the lips, and
rinse the mouth always before
eating. No che should partake
of any food which has stood in
the sick room. All of these pre-
cautions should be continued
until the recovery is complete
and until all diarrhea has ceased.
4. 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 dysenterv
and all other diarrheal diseases,
including summer complaint in
children.
3. All we'll water and unfiltered
water from rivers draining inhab-
tied areas, where typhoid fever
and diarrheal 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, sand should
always be boiled before it is drunk
by any one not immune from
typhoi fever. In the absence of
a reli,, ole, filtered, public water
supply, carefully collected and
properly stored, cistern water is
safest.
6. The windows and doors OF
all dwelling houses, and especially
OF the kitchen and dining room,
should always be we'll screened,
and the flies actually kept out
Unless this is done, "a carelessly
managed case of typhoid fever, or
other diarrheal disease, even a
mile or more away, may be
source of danger on account OF
flies. As mosquitoes are now
known to be the carriers of ma
laria, the same precautions viii
protect from this poison also.
The universal and etfectua.
practice of these precautions
would require intelligent care and
some expense, but would result il
the practical disappearance OF
one of our most common and fata
domestic pestilences, which is not
only a disgrace to our civilization
but an annual scourge and ta>
upon the people of Kentucky IL
comparison with which yellow
fever and cholera, plague anc
other exotic diseases so feared by
our people sink into insigniti