Infectious diseases handbook / Ministry of the Interior, Egypt. Department of Public Health.

Date:
1922
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Credit: Infectious diseases handbook / Ministry of the Interior, Egypt. Department of Public Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. WEARING OF SPECIAL CLOTHING BY ALL DISINFECTING STAFF. | The following instructions are to be most strictly insisted on :— All persons must wear meery clothes and nothing but meery clothes while engaged in the work of disinfection. They will be supplied with :— Shirt. Drawers. Socks and boots. Khaki overalls and blouse (disinfectors, reises, and cordon builders). Blue overalls (men). Blue gallabiya (arbagiya). Puttees. These overalls, shirts. and blouses are so made as to tighten up at the wrists and ankles to prevent the ingress of lice. The socks, drawers, and shirt in disinfecting work for plague, typhus, and relapsing fever will be freely sprinkled with Keating’s powder, .e. in disease transmitted by insects. Puttees will be worn by all persons while engaged in disinfection. If no puttees are available socks will be worn outside the overalls, to prevent insects getting inside. This is a simple but most efficacious precaution and the attention of all disinfectors, cordon builders, reises, etc., is called to it. On finishing their work disinfection staff should at once strip. All the meery clothes except the boots should be put at once into a disin- fecting bag. This should be closed by the running tape at the neck and put in the steam disinfector as soon as possible. Arbagiya engaged in the transport of infected cases will go through the same procedure. Having taken off their clothes, disinfecting staff will bathe their bodies in soap and kerosene solution, afterwards with warm water and soap. They should finally wash their hands in 1 : 2,000 sublimate solution. Where there is a bathing place, either in a fixed disinfecting station or a temporary contact disinfecting station, the disinfector will march | the workmen straight there for bathing on finishing their work. Where the staff have to take a train or some conveyance to the changing and bathing station after finishing their work, they should carry their ordinary clothes with them in the small bags supplied for the purpose. They should then change and bathe on finishing