The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-02

ence of most physicians in active
practice.
4 Based upon the teachings of the
J foregoing facts, the following rules
have been prepared with care for the
guidance of all persons interested in
their own and the public health:
| /. When II is known or suspected
THAT person has typhoid fever. he
should be placed in a large, well
ventilated room, with the windows
and doors well screened. and such
preparation should be made from the
first day for the thorough and sys-
Itematic disinfection of all discharges
from the bowels and kidneys as will
protect other members OF the fam
lily, the attendants, and the commu-
nifty.
2. A solution OF chloride Of
lime. eight ounces TO the gallon of
water, should be provided in guam
tity. and a quart of this should be
put in the bed-pan or vessel each
time before It receives the discharges
and should be well stirred and al
lowed to stand in the vessel at least
at hour before ii is emptied. An
equivalent solution of creolin. or a
thick white-wash made from 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 disinfection.
: 3. Soiled bed or body linen
should remain in the chloride OF
? lime solution for an hour. and may
thea be safely put in the family
wash. Soiled paper or clothes used
about the patient should be imme-
: dlately burned. Attendants should
wash the hands and lips frequently,
and rinse the mouth always before
eating No one should partake OF
any food which has stood in the sick
room. All OF these precautions
/ should he continued until the recoy-
,ty is complete and until all diar-
rhea has ceased. and for several
weeks With the urine.
4. Typhoid fever is not contagi.
Gus In the sense commonly under
! stood. and II the precautions above
: indicated ere faithfully and intel
: lgently carried out a case may b.
treated l.. any family or community
with perfect safety. III others have
1.-THE disease, Il will be because the,
were infected from the same source
as the patient. or contracted II else
where. Essentially the same precan.
tions should be observed in dyson
: terry and all other diarrheal disease
: including summer complaint in chir
) dren.
: 5. All well water, and unfilterec
: water from rivers draining inhabited
: areas, where typhoid fever and diar
/. rheal diseases are likely 10 occur a
4 any time. and milk stored in cans OF
? vessels washed in such water, should
y be looked upon as suspicious. and
: ishouid always be boiled before IL Il
! drunk by any one not Immune from
+. Typhoid fever.
r 6. The windows and doors of al
{ dwelling houses. and especially o
\ the kitchen and dining room. should
: always be wen screened. and thu
: flies actually kept out. Unless THU
4 Is done. a carelessly managed cast
: of typhoid fever, or other diarrhea
' disease. even mile or more away
: mag be & source of danger on ac
I count of fires. AS mosquitoes ar'
3. now known TO be the carriers OF ma
E isria. the same precautions will pro
Y teot from, this poison also.
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: iics . those precautions will re iuis'
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: lbu, would result in the practical lie
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