Instructions on procedure in outbreaks of cholera.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Dākhilīyah
Date:
1918
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Credit: Instructions on procedure in outbreaks of cholera. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee i ee II.—Issue of Instructions by the Ministry of the Interior. The Omdas throughout the country will receive from the Ministry of the Interior the following instructions in circular form headed by an explanation of the nature of the menace :— Circular to Omdas. “Tt will be known to you that cholera is now prevailing in several of the countries surrounding Egypt, and that this country is in danger of being infected. In order to prevent this danger vou will carry out the following orders :— 1. Report to the Medical Officer of the Markaz or Outpost by telephone the arrival in your village of :— (a) Strangers. (b) People belonging to the village who have been absent for more than ten days. You will send them with a ghafir to the Medical Officer for examination on the day after their arrival and again six days after that. 2. You will inform the Medical Officer immediately of :— (a) All cases suspicious of being cholera. (b) All instances in which two people who are related have died within a period of twenty-five days. On the occurrence of the second of these deaths you will not permit the burial of the body without the permission of the Medical Officer. Similarly, in the case of a person dying suddenly with symptoms of cholera, where the illness was not reported in time to report to the Medical Officer while the patient was alive, you must inform the Medical. Officer and hold up the burial till he has seen the case. 3. The symptoms by which you may know a case of cholera are diarrhoea and vomiting, weakness, cramps in the stomach and limbs, with coldness and blueness of the face, hands and feet. Any cases suspected of being cholera should be at once isolated in separate temporary shelters outside the village. The people living in the houses of such cases must also be isolated in a temporary shelter. Nothing should be moved from the houses of cases and no one should be allowed to enter them. They should be shut up and a ghafir put at the door to prevent access until the disinfector arrives. The patients and contacts isolated should be given food and water from houses in which no suspicious cases have occurred.