The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1911-09-13
PREVENTION OF
TYPHOID FLYER
Rules Telling How to Avoid the
Fatal Disease Issued by the
State Board of Health.

| luC DbdIC DOdiu VI utdluU lids
issued circular in regard to the
prevention of typhoid fever. The
fever season is now here and the
following rules have been prepared
by DR.. j. Nj. Mathews, President,
and DR.. j. n. Mccormack, Sec
rotary:
l. When it is known or sus-
pected that a person has typhoid
fever he should be placed in
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 systematic
disinfection of all discharges from
the bowels and kidneys as will pro-
tect 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 be provided in
quantity, 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 allowed to stand in the
vessel at least an boar before it is
buried. An equivalent solution of
creolin, or thick whltewash
made from the fresh quicklime,
may be used in the same way
when the chloride of lime cannot
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 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 one
should partake of any food which
has stood in the sick room. All of
these precautions should be con-
Quoted until the recovery is COM
plete and until all diarrhoea has
ceased.
4. Typhoid fever is not contag-
ious in the sense commonly under
stood, and if the precautions above
indicat, d are faithfully and intelli-
gently carried out, a case may be
treated in any family or commun-
ity with perfect safety. If Others
have the disease, it will be because
they we're infected from the same
source as the patient, or contract
ed it ell: ewhere. The same pre-
cautions should be observed in
dysentery and all other diarrhoeal
diseases, including summer COM
plant in children.
5. All well water and unfiltered
water from rivers draining inhabit-
ed areas, where typhoid fever and
diarreheal 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 anyone
not immune from typhoid fever.
In the absence of a reliable. filter
ed, public water supply, carefully |
collected and properly stored els
tern water is the safest.
6. The windows and doors of
all dwelling houses, and especially !
of 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 diarrh-
Deal disease, even a mile or more
away, may be a source of danger
on account of flies. AS mosquitoes
are now known to be the carriers
of malaria. the same precaution
will protect from this poison also.
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