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caring for patients who would be especially susceptible 

 to the disease which she has been in contact with, such 

 as children or confinement cases after scarlet fever, and 

 surgical or obstetric cases after erysipelas or septic in- 

 fections. 



SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS: DISINFECTION AND FUMIGATION 



In disinfection in infectious disease the method to be 

 followed depends upon the nature and characteristics 

 of the infecting agent and the manner in which the germ 

 is thrown off. In cholera and typhoid fever the germ is 

 thrown off with the urine and feces, while in pneumonia, 

 diphtheria, and tuberculosis it is found in the sputum. 



Typhoid Fever, Cholera, Yellow Fever. Exclude 

 flies. The feces and urine should be received in a vessel 

 containing a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid or i : 1000 

 solution of bichlorid of mercury. They should be al- 

 lowed to stand an hour, being stirred several times be- 

 fore emptying. The water-closet, seat and bowl, and 

 the bed-pan should be washed daily with carbolic or 

 sublimate solution. All bed-linen, garments, towels, 

 handkerchiefs worn or used by the patient should be 

 immersed in 5 per cent, carbolic or i : 1000 solution of 

 bichlorid for an hour and boiled. Rubber gloves should 

 be used while bathing a patient. All vomited matter 

 should be disinfected in the same manner as the stools 

 and urine. 



The nurse should, if possible, have been vaccinated 



