[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.

  • West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wash and disinfect her hands and face, and change her shoes and outer clothes after leaving the sickroom. 7. No food or drink which has been in the same room as the patient should be used by anyone else. It should be burned. 8. Plates, cups, spoons, clothes and anything else brought from the sickroom should be placed in disinfectant solution for at least half-an-hour, and afterwards washed in water by themselves. 9. The patient’s discharges should be received into a vessel containing a disinfectant of an approved nature. 10. Pieces of rag should be used instead of handker¬ chiefs, and burned immediately after use. 11. When scales or crusts form upon the skin, it should be kept well smeared with carbolic oil or grease. 12. No visitors should be allowed. 13. The patient should not be allowed to sleep in the same room as any healthy person until at least a fortnight after apparently complete recovery. 14. The Medical Officer of Health should be nformed when the illness is at an end, when a van will be sent to remove the bedding and clothes for disinfection and will afterwards bring them back. 15. Disinfection of a sickroom or other room of a house must be done to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health. The disinfection will be carried out by the Council’s Officials, free of charge, if so desired by the occupier. 16. The whole of the house should be kept well ven¬ tilated, clean, and in good sanitary order throughout the illness. GEO. E. SCHOLEFIELD, M.D., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health.