COMMON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. 



keep in the adjoining room where the phy- 

 sician dons it before seeing his patient. 

 If your meals are sent up to you from the 

 general kitchen, be sure to disinfect the 

 dishes, the tray and everything on the tray 

 before placing it in the corridor to be carried 

 down stairs. A small ice chest in which to keep 

 articles of food, such as pasteurized milk, eggs, 

 etc., is a great convenience, in fact almost a 

 necessity, and should of course be placed in 

 the room adjoining the sick room. After 

 desquamation ceases your patient must be 

 treated to several baths containing a disinfec- 

 ant before mingling with other members of the 

 family. Nothing worn in the sick room may 

 be placed on your patient after his bath. Use 

 the same routine in all diseases in which there 

 is desquamation. Be very thorough in fumigat- 

 ing and cleansing, also in personal disinfection 

 before going to another case. 



Mumps. In mumps it is deemed wise to dis- Sources of 

 infect discharges from the throat and nose. uSw?^*'"" 

 Although it has not yet been proven how the 

 disease is contracted, it is conceded by all to be 

 a communicable disease. 



Tetanus, commonly called "lockjaw," is 

 caused from the invasion of wounds by a germ xetanr 

 known as bacillus tetani, usually found in the 

 soil near the surface The poisonous matter is 

 thrown off through the pus discharged from the 

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