All discharges from the patient should be received in vessels containing a disinfectant, as carbolic acid, or better still, a strong solution of green copperas. The cup which is provided for the patient to spit in should also contain a disinfectant.

All bed-clothes, linen, etc., should be placed in water containing a disinfectant before they are taken from the room; pocket handkerchiefs should not be used, but small pieces of rag, which should be burnt. All glasses and cups used should be very carefully cleansed in hot water before being used by any one else.

Nurses should not wear woollen garments, but glazed cotton dresses, and should wash their hands in water containing chloride of lime before leaving the room.

In scarlet fever and smallpox, when the poison is given off from the skin, it is a very good plan to rub the patient with oil, or, better, camphorated oil; this is soothing to the patient, and it prevents the poisonous matter getting away from the skin and becoming diffused in the air around.

As soon as the patient is well enough he should take a warm bath, in which the whole of his person should be scrubbed, carbolic soap being used, and afterwards the bath should be repeated every other day until four or five have been taken. He should not be.allowed to mix with other people until the skin is perfectly clean.

In enteric fever the discharges from the intestinal canal should be. disinfected.

In cholera disinfection is much more difficult, owing to the enormous amount of discharge, but it is well in this, as in enteric fever, to adopt the precaution.

After a person has recovered, the room and articles in it require disinfecting. The best way to do this is to paste up the crevices of the windows and fireplace with paper, and then to burn in the room, in an iron vessel, some sulphur. The vessel in which the sulphur is burnt should be suspended over a bucket of water by placing it on a couple of stair rods or a pair of tongs, and the sulphur can be lit by a match, or, still better, by pouring spirits of wine on it and lighting that; the door must then be shut and paper pasted over the crevices outside. The sulphur will burn and form sulphurous acid in such a quantity that a person could not live in the room. It should be left for six hours, and at the end of that time it will have been sufficiently disinfected.

The paper on the walls should be stripped off and burnt, but the sulphur should be burnt in the room before this is done.

The walls of the room should be lime-whited, and the wood-work scrubbed well with water having chloride of lime or some other disinfectant in it; the ceiling should be lime-whited, and the room left unoccupied as long as possible.

Bed and bed-linen should be sent to the hot air chamber and baked.

In no instance where these precautions have been taken have I known the same disease to break out again in a room, and that is, I think, a proof that the method is a good one, and it is a method supported by some admirable experiments recently made with agents for the destruction of the poisons of epidemic diseases.

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