APPENDIX. 



ON PREVENTABLE DISEASES AND THEIR CAUSES. 



GENERAL PRECAUTIONS. 



1. The following preventable diseases (called also zymotic) are all infec- 

 tious. The chief of these are : Scarlet fever, typhoid (or enteric fever), 

 typhus fever, smallpox, measles, diphtheria, whooping-cough, and 

 Asiatic cholera. 



2. When any of these illnesses (except whooping-cough) enters a 

 household, the patient should be, if possible, at once separated from the 

 rest of the inmates (especially from the bread-winners) ; the children 

 who are in health kept from school, and as much as possible from 

 mixing with other children. 



3. The sick-room to be divested as much as possible of every article 

 of needless furniture, especially of woollen fabrics, such as carpets, 

 curtains, cushions, &c. ; to be well ventilated by means of a fire 

 constantly burning, and the strictest cleanliness observed. 



4. A large vessel (a tub) to be kept in the room, containing a couple 

 of gallons of water mixed with carbolic acid, in the proportion of one 

 wine-glassful of the liquid acid to each gallon of water. Into this, every 

 article of clothing, bed-clothes, &c., removed from the patient, should 

 be immediately plunged, and kept there for twelve hours, and then 

 washed apart. 



5. A basin containing water, having two tablespoonfuls of Condy's 

 Fluid added to it, to be always in readiness for cleansing the attend- 

 ant's hands, or sponging the patient when necessary. This solution 

 should be renewed when it is seen to lose its bright purple colour. 



6. A sheet dipped in the carbolic solution named, should be hung 

 over the door of the sick-room, reaching to the ground, and kept con- 

 stantly damp by means of sprinkling or a sponge. Only the attendant 

 to enter the sick-room. 



7. The dress of the attendant should be of cotton, or of some washable 

 material, with smooth surface. 



8. Food that has been in the sick-room, on no account to be used by 

 the other inmates. It is desirable for many reasons, that the attendant 

 do not take her meals in the sick-room. 



9. Dishes, and vessels of every kind used about the patient, ought to 

 be thoroughly cleansed before being used by others. 



