Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-11
SAN|TOR|UM NURSE
COMPLIES DON'TS TO
GUIDE HER PATIENTS
MISS GiVNEY, IN CHARGE OF THE
COUNTY INSTITUTION. PRE-
PARES PAPER AS HELP TO
THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM
TUBERCULOSIS.

Miss Givney, nurse in charge OF the
county's tuberculosis sanitorum, is a
student of her work To the care of
her patients she has given much study
and thought with the result she has
compiled a very comprehensive set OF
instructions to be used as guide in
forestaling the dread disease as much
as is possible. To each she gives this
showing its effect upon those who are
! taking treatment under her The
Free Trader-JOurnal, because OF the
value these Instructions possess to the
public in general has secured copy
Of them and reprints them as follows.
knowledge is power and no dis
ease is knowledge of his condition
more essential to the patients we'll
being than in tuberculosis.
The manner in which infection most
commonly travels from one person to
another, is by dust i'm which the germ
of tuberculosis is found. A tubercular
man or woman eXpectorates on the
floor or wall.
The sputum dries and becomes fine
ly pulverized
Then the little fine particles of
dust noata in the air. carrying
the tiny tubcrcles or germs to
be breathed in by anyone who happens
10 come in contact with them.
That the disease is frequently spread
in this manner. there is no doubt;
in fact, that probably is the way in
which it usually travels
There is another method of almost
equal importance: infection from close
contact with tubercular individuals, -
those who are careless where they
expectorate and where they cough.
/ Because a person with tuberculosis
may cough and not expectorate, do
mot make the error of thinking him
/
the mouth may be laden with tuberci-
losis germs Gllutration) hold look
| ing.glass or small mirror before the
mouth when coughing. CDR Victor
Vaughan's own experiment. A. A.
1911.
He is only harmless when he hold
handkerchief or clothe before his
mouth when coughing. to catch these
little particles of salaver which may
contain the germ
This manner of communicating the
disease from one to another is called
diaples infection.
/ Perhaps the next most frequent way
| in which tuberculosis may be trans
mitted to man, is though food; in
fected meat or milk from tubercular
cows constitutes great source OF
danger, and according to some au-
thOrites tuberculosis from the drink
ing of infected milk is very common.
NOTICE.
Wash your ice-box in the summer.
DO not allow the pipes to become
clogged and slime to form.
Finally, but not so frequent, the
germs gains entrance into the sys'
TEN through cuts or abrasions in the
skin.
This is important to those who are
compelled to live with one suffering
from the disease because in cleaning
a cuspidor or glass or cup it might be
careessly broken, cutting and infect
ing the skin and giving tuberculosis
matter direct entrance into the blood
streams.
Serious as these many dangers OF
infection and reinfecton may appear
you must remember that to avoid
them, all that is necessary Is to be
careful, should you happen to be the
unfortunate sufferer; and never for
get the ease with which you may
spread infection should you be care
less.
The patient who is up and about,
should always expectorate into GUS
pidor partly filled with some Olsen
fectant solution.
The cuspidor must have a cover,
and have an opening large enough to
make 1t easy to deposit the sputum
without soiling the brim on which
the sputum might drop, and become
source CT infection
Whenever expectoration is neces-
: sary, 1t should be in clothe or hand
A kerchief. which must be Immediately
! destroyed, or as soon as possible.
Wrap same in paper until your op
, portunity for burning presents itself
= It Is very easy foK one using clothes
G or handkerchiefs to infect the hands
therefore the hands must be washed
thoroughly before touching food
The handkerchief used FOR the OK
pectoration should never be used fol
wipng the nose. for there also Is dan
} ger of infection
The house fly is a perilous carrier
+. OF infection, and vessels used ior spu
, tum must be covered agalns. hiu.
The fly can easily carry small
/ particles of sputum on It's feet an
deposit them on articles of food; ever
the dead fly which has fed on tubercu
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