Clear directions for the prevention of the spread of fevers : a primer for girls' schools / by Frances Johnstone.

  • Johnstone, Frances.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Clear directions for the prevention of the spread of fevers : a primer for girls' schools / by Frances Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    *5 eating with it, should be flushed twice daily, with the green copperas liquid, or with carbolic acid, diluted with water. In towns and villages where the fever is already prevalent, the last rule should be put in force for all houses, whether there be fever in them or not, and tor all public drains. (i ever>t of death, proceed as directed at page 18. As the hands of those attending on the sick often ecome unavoidably soiled by the discharges from !i0we . ’ should be frequently washed, he sick room should be kept well ventilated dav and night. J The greatest possible care should be taken with regard to the drinking-water. Where there is the slightest risk of its having become tainted with fever- peuson, water should be got from a pure source, or shou d at least be boiled and filtered before being drunk. Immediately after the illness is over w hether ending in death or in recovery, the dresses worn by the nurses should be disinfected and washed, and the bed and room occupied by the sick should be thoroughly disinfected. These are golden rules. Where they are neglected the fever may become a deadly scourge; where they are strictly carried out, it seldom spreads beyond the person first attacked. J “N.B. a j , , . “ W. BUDD. ■A yard of thin, wide-width gutta-percha, pPStbbnef t,h^Ianke*’ ^der the breechthe ?oakW imnfr r,al 7 anting the discharges from As in J] hV?ed’ 18 a Sreat additional safeguard, bv l!l fi °f infe?]10118 disorders> full ventilation, portage” 6’ °fcherwise is of fche highest im- 5. Mumps is infectious chiefly by the breath, and