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, (1) Sterilize all milk, especially that given to infants and 

 •children. (See Bulletin 53). 



(2) Thoroughly cook all meats before eating them. 



(3) Completely sterilize all drinking water. 



(4) Never employ consumptive (tuberculous) persons as 

 cooks, house servants, or to milk or care for dairy cattle or 

 to clerk in stores or handle eatables of any kind. Such per- 

 sons better work in the open fields. 



(5) Never visit improperly kept quarters or living rooms 

 of consumptives, and in no case allow children to play with 

 consumptives or visit their rooms. 



(6) Consumptive persons should not teach schooL 



(7) Children or any one having consumption should not 

 attend public schools or public gatherings in closed rooms. 



(8) Consumptives should not marry. 



(9) A person having consumption should occupy a room 

 by himself ; keep it as clean as possible ; never use carpets 

 or rugs; never expectorate upon the floor; always expecto- 

 rate into cuspidors containing a solution of corrosive subli- 

 mate, 7 grains to one pint of water, or upon cloths that can 

 be immediately burned. 



(10) Consumptives should never kiss any one — especially 

 children or babies. In fact, many physicians regard mouth 

 to mouth kissing as filthy and as occasionally dangerous, be- 

 cause many diseases are thus communicated from the dis- 

 eased to the healthy. 



(11) Buildings, rooms, sleeping cars, berths and beds 

 occupied by consumptives should be completely disinfected 

 before being occupied by healthy persons. 



(12) "Do not fail to wash thoroughly the eating utensils 

 of a person who has consumption as soon after eating as 

 possible, using boiling water for the purpose." 



(13) A consumptive's unwashed clothing should never 

 be kept, or washed with similar clothing of other persons. 

 Such clothing should be boiled for at least one hour, or 

 otherwise disinfected before being washed or during the pro- 

 cess of washing. 



