Plague / by B.L. Dhingra.

  • Dhingra, B. L.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plague / by B.L. Dhingra. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    litfcee may consist of a Deputy Commissioner, a Medica^ llicer, an Engineer, and a Police or a Military Officer. THe mil Officer, an Engineer, and a Police or a Military Officer. THe town should be divided into districts, each district or division having a Medical Officer of its own, with the requisite staff and other requirements. Search parties should be sent out to report plague cases. The infected person should be taken to the segregation camp, and the infected house closed and marked with a circle in red paint. The disinfection of such a house is carried on in the following manner :—On entering the house the disinfecting paroy open all doors and windows. Clothes, &c., are carefully taken outside. They should possess large quantities of per- chloride of mercury lotion—(1 in 1,000 to which hydrochloric acid in the proportion of 2 in 1,000 is added). This is sprayed with hand pumps in every part of the house. All furniture is then wiped over with a cloth soaked in this solution, and then dried in the sun. The walls, floors and ceilings are whitewashed with a hot and strong solution of quicklime to which a little chloride of lime has been added. Mr. Hankin suggests that infected dwellings should be washed with the Mercury lotion, and on the following day with dilute Sulphuric acid (1 in 250). He recommends dilute Sulphuric acid for washing out passages, court-yards, and surface drains. If the floor is of mud, it should be dug up for four inches after sprinkling Mercury lotion. It may be necessary to remove a portion of the roof to improve ventilation. The house is then looked up, and poi’mission for occupation may be granted after two to four weeks. In every case where houses are to be evacuated provision should previously be made for those who haT© to leave their houses. Chhapnr huts can be made easily. They are
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