Dangerous communicable diseases, how spread, how restricted and prevented : data and statements supplied to School Superintendents and Teachers by the Michigan State Board of Health, in compliance with Act No. 146, Laws of 1895.

  • Michigan. State Board of Health.
Date:
190.3
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Credit: Dangerous communicable diseases, how spread, how restricted and prevented : data and statements supplied to School Superintendents and Teachers by the Michigan State Board of Health, in compliance with Act No. 146, Laws of 1895. 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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    protected, should be kept away from these diseases. Except it be disinfected, no letter or paper should be sent through the mail from an infected place. Do not go from a sick room to a child or other unpro- tected person until after change of clothing and thorough disinfection of hands, face, hair and beard.* After any handling of the sick person or anything that has been in contact with the sick person, always dis- infect the hands thoroughly by washing them in a two per cent solution of carbolic acid, or a one to one thou- sand solution of mercuric chloride (corrosive subli- mate). Keep those who have been exposed to any of these diseases away from schools, churches, and other assemblies, and from all children, until it is known whether they are infected,—and if they are found to be infected, isolate them until after complete recovery and thorough disinfection. 3. To destroy the contagium or special cause of the disease: a. Thoroughly disinfect or destroy whatever is re- moved from the person sick, or from the sick room. All discharges from the lungs, nose, throat and mouth, should be burned or disinfected. All other discharges from the patient should be received into vessels con- taining a five per cent solution of carbolic acid, in quantity equal to or greater than the discharge to be •Corrosive sublimate, one part to one thousand parts of cologne or water. Is sometimes used by physicians for this purpose. This solution should be labeled POISON.