770 MICROBIOLOGY OF DISEASES OF MAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



REGULATIONS REGARDING VISITORS 



Persons of all ages and both sexes, who are not immune to the 

 disease in question, must be rigidly excluded from all houses where cases 

 or non-immune contacts are isolated or quarantined. 



Immunes are rigidly excluded from contact with the patient in- 

 deed no one should see the patient except physician, nurse or other 

 attendant, although the law admits the clergy, and of course under- 

 takers, in case of death. 



Where important affairs make it essential that a visitor other than 

 those permitted by law, should interview the case, or otherwise come 

 in contact with him, immunes should be selected to make the visit, 

 and they should be required to obtain written permits from the M. 

 O. H. and be guided in their conduct during and after the interview 

 by the general rules such as are followed by doctors and nurses to avoid 

 carrying infection to others. 



IN CASE OF DEATH 



The body should be handled only by a skilled undertaker: the 

 orifices should be antiseptically plugged and the body wrapped in a 

 sheet wrung out of bichloride solution, i in 500. Metallic coffins, 

 embalming, etc., are entirely unnecessary, merely adding to the ex- 

 pense of the stricken family, without affording any additional protection 

 to the public health. If such unnecessarily refined precautions are 

 insisted upon by the public health authorities, then the community, 

 not the individual, should bear the expense. 



The funeral should be private, only members of the household 

 already in the house or proved immunes from outside being permitted 

 to attend any ceremonies in the house. 



After the house ceremonies are over, non-infectious members of the 

 family, immune or not, may attend the funeral procession; and whoever 

 likes to do so may join the procession outside the house and go with it 

 wherever they please. 



Local laws and ordinances often call for excessive precautions and 

 of course must be obeyed. The above, however, include all the real 

 essentials for health protection. 



