IV. Nowhere in the house or compound should any kind of organic refuse
be allowed to accumulate. Better not use any organic manure in the
kitchen garden or house garden during an epidemic.
V. Articles of food should not be allowed to remain uncovered on the
table or elsewhere, for there is chance of their infection by flies,
mice, or rats.
VI. Clothes received from the dhoby’s house should be again boiled in
water, dried, and then used.
VII. Bed-clothes and wearing apparel should be aired and exposed to the
sun daily. As frequently as possible floors and passages should be well
washed with a disinfectant solution and then well dried.
VIII. There should not be any over-crowding in bed-rooms.
IX. Drinking water should be boiled before use. Raw vegetables, such as
salad, cucumber, &c., should only be used after thoroughly washing them,
and then with vinegar.
X. Personal cleanliness should be strictly observed. Daily bath,
cleaning the teeth with carbolic tooth powder, and carefully washing
hands and mouth before and after meals are essential.
XI. Those who have to attend on plague cases should be very careful.
Hands should be thoroughly washed with a disinfectant solution, and a
nail brush used soon after the patient or anything in contact with him
is touched. A bath to which some antiseptic is added should be taken
immediately after coming in contact with plague patients. Workers in
plague hospitals should be warned about scratches or wounds on their
bodies. Use of respirators with an antiseptic sprinkled over the
entrance valves is recommended. Only very healthy people should approach
plague cases. On the appearance of slightest headache, languor, or fever
an attendant should be relieved from duty.
XII. As a prophylactic 5 grains of quinine sulphate may be taken twice
daily, or a small bottle containing eucalyptus or some other volatile
disinfectant, may be carried in the pocket, and a few drops may be
occasionally poured on the handkerchief. Smoking good tobacco may have a
prophylactic value.
XIII. If plague occurs in the house, the following steps should be
taken:—
(_a_) The patient should at once be put in bed and kept in a temporary
room, which may be put up on the roof of a house. No healthy inmate of
the house should go in that room or have any connection with the sick,
except those who have to nurse the patient.
(_b_) All discharges, fæces, urine, sputum, vomited matter, &c., should
be taken in vessels with disinfectant solution in it, and some quicklime
should immediately be sprinkled over them. On no account should anything
leave the room but to be disinfected.
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