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against typhoid. She should disinfect the hands after 

 handling the patient with bichlorid solution. 



All dishes, trays, glasses, cups, and other eating 

 utensils should be washed with bichlorid and boiled. 

 All remains of liquid food should be mixed with carbolic 

 or sublimate solution and all solids burned. All toys, 

 books, pencils, or writing material should be disinfected 

 before being handled by others, or burned. 



The patient's hands and parts of the body that be- 

 come soiled with discharges should be washed with 

 i : 1000 bichlorid solution. These precautions should 

 be followed until the temperature has been normal at 

 least a week, when the room and furniture should be 

 disinfected. All wood work, wooden furniture, iron 

 beds, springs, etc., should be washed with i : 1000 

 bichlorid solution. All rugs, portieres, curtains, and 

 draperies should have been removed from the room. 

 If they have not, those that can be boiled should be, and 

 the rest should be placed where formaldehyd can reach 

 them to the best advantage; the windows and doors 

 should be sealed and formaldehyd generated either with 

 a special apparatus or by the permanganate method, as 

 described in an earlier chapter. 



Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Measles. Exclude flies. 

 All precautions for typhoid and cholera, except disin- 

 fection of the stools and urine, should be carried out in 

 diphtheria, scarlet fever, and measles, with additional 

 precautions to prevent the dissemination of the germs 



