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Calvert's or McDougall's Diainfocting Powders, or with a weak solution of 



one of the disinfecting fluids already mentioned. 



3. Ycssels containing disinfecting fluids should be placed in the room 

 for the reception of all bed and body linen, towels, handkerchiefs, etc., im- 

 mediately on being removed from the patient, and on no account should 

 they be washed along with other household articles. 



4. Disinfectants should also be placed in all the chamber utensils used 

 by the patient, and, after use, more disinfecting fluid should be added, and 

 the whole contents, if possible, should be immediately buried. No chamber 

 vessel should be allowed to remain in the room after having been used. 



5. All plates, cups, glasses, etc., which have been used by the patient, 

 should be rinsed with some disinfectant before being washed ; and on no 

 account should any vessels used in the sick room be washed along with other 

 things, unless previously thoroughly disinfected. 



6. Attendants on the sick should not wear woolen dresses, but only 

 those made of washing materials. 



7. Basins containing water, to which some disinfectant has been added, 

 should always be at hand for the benefit of the attendants on the sick, who 

 should not be sparing of their use. 



8. No article of food or drink from the sick room should be consumed 

 by other persons. 



9. Visitors to the sick room, except in the case of clergymen and med- 

 ical men, should be peremptorily forbidden : and they, when necessarily 

 present, should, on leaving, wash their hands in water to which a disinfect- 

 ant has been added, and have as little immediate communication with oth- 

 ers as possible. 



III. When a death from infectious disease occurs, the body should be 

 at once placed in a coffin and sprinkled with some disinfecting fluid or pow- 

 der, such as chloride of lime, etc., and buried with the least possible delay. 



2. On no account whatever should it be allowed to remain in a room 

 occupied by living persons. 



IV. On the termination of a case of infectious disease, either when the 

 patient is pronounced free from infection, or, in the event of death, after 

 removal of the body, the sick room and its contents should be thoroughly 

 cleansed and disinfected. 



2. The bed and bed-clothes, and all wearing apparel used by the at- 

 tendants or patient, should be thoroughly disinfected. 



V. In houses where a case of infectious disease occurs, no washing, 

 tailoring, dress making, nor any similar occupation, ought to be carried on. 



2. No milk or food of any kind should be supplied from infected houses. 



3. Children from infected houses should not be allowed to attend 

 schools, and all persons from infected houses should have as little commu- 

 nication as possible with others, either in private houses or in public places, 

 such as railways, omnibuses, public-houses, churches, etc. 



4. Any accumulation of filth or refuse of any kind should be at once 



