Hygienic measures in relation to infectious diseases / ... By George H. F. Nuttall.

  • Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner, 1862-1937.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Hygienic measures in relation to infectious diseases / ... By George H. F. Nuttall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preventive Measures, In the case of house epidemics, isolation and free ventilation are indicated, as also a thorough cleansing of apartments. Disinfection. Disinfect sputa by boiling or burning. 19.—rPuerperal Fever. CAUSE : VARIOUS PYOGENIC BACTERIA (STAPHYLOCOCCI AND streptococci). Mode of Infection, etc. Pathogenic micro-organisms are invariably present in this disease. Though auto-infection may occur, in the vast majori'y of cases the disease is spread through the agency of physicians, midwives, or nurses, especially is this so in epidemics, where the hands, instruments, etc., of those in attendance are not properly disinfected. The patho- genic organisms find a very good opportunity for their multiplication in the presence of the broken-down tissue and the wounds which occur in the genital tract during parturition. As the organisms which produce this dis- ease are capable of resisting desiccation they can be suspended in the form of dust, thus contaminating the