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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    It may be necessary in this case at first to keep time-expired prisoners. or inmates of reformatories for a little while, but arrangements should be made immediately for them to start their quarantine ten days before the expiration of their sentence. TREATMENT OF CASES. (a) Markaz Prisons. When the country has been declared infected with cholera, the Markaz Medical Officer will examine all prisoners in Markaz prisons once daily. He will arrange that any suspicious cases should be at once reported to him. The Mamir should be asked to explain the symptoms of cholera to the Non-Commissioned Officers and men charged with guarding the prison. If an outbreak occurs in the Markaz prison— All prisoners will be isolated in quarantine for ten days under the supervision of the Department of Public Health. This quarantine will be in tents or huts outside the prison. The police will guard the prisoners as securely as possible during the quarantine. (b) Central Prisons and Giza Reformatories for Boys and Girls. The Department of Public Health will undertake the management of the outbreak. (c) Convict Prisons and Adult Reformatories. The Prisons Department will undertake the management of the out- break. The Department of Public Health will supply the equipment. In the matter of retention of time-expired convicts owing to the occurrence of cholera, the Prisons Department will be understood to be acting temporarily for the Department of Public Health. Convicts suffering from cholera will, in general, be treated by the Prisons Department in a hospital outside the prison; the site will be agreed on later. Time-expired convicts suffering from or suspected to be suffering from cholera will be treated in the same hospital. Time-expired convicts who have developed cholera during their period of quarantine will be similarly dealt with.