The greatest care must be exercised by attendants to escape contracting the disease and to prevent its communication to others. The bowel discharges must be submerged in milk of lime (one part of slaked lime to four parts of water), and remain in it one hour before being emptied. The urine should be mixed with an equal amount of the same, or solution of carbolic acid (one part in twenty parts of hot water), and the mixture should stand an hour before being thrown into privy or sewer. Clothing and linen in contact with the patient must be soaked in the carbolic solution for two hours. The patient's expectoration is to be received on old muslin pieces, which must be burned. The bedpan and eating utensils must be frequently scalded in boiling water. The attendant should wash his hands always after touching the patient, or objects which have come in contact with patient or his discharges, and thus will avoid contagion. If farm or dairy workers come in contact with the patient, the latter precaution is especially important. If there is no water-closet in the house, the disinfected discharges may be buried at least 100 feet from any well or stream. Typhoid fever is only derived from the germs escaping in the urine, and in the bowel, nose, or mouth discharges of typhoid patients. =MUMPS.=--Mumps is a contagious disease characterized by inflammation of the parotid glands, situated below and in front of the ears, and sometimes of the other salivary glands below the jaw, and rarely of the testicles in males and the breasts in females. Swelling and inflammation of the parotid gland also occur from injury; and as a complication of other diseases, as scarlet fever, typhoid fever, etc.; but such conditions are wholly distinct from the disease under discussion. Mumps is more or less constantly prevalent in most large cities, more often in the spring and fall, and is often epidemic, attacking ninety per cent of young persons who have not previously had the disease. It is more common in males, affecting children and youths, but rarely infants or those past middle age. One attack usually protects against another. =Development.=--A period of from one to three weeks elapses, after exposure to the disease, before the first signs develop. The germ has not yet been discovered, and the means of communication are unknown. The breath has been thought to spread the germs of the disease, and mumps can be conveyed from the sick to the well, by nurses and others who themselves escape.