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again in the solutions. The nails should always be 
kept perfectly clean. Before eating the hands should 
be first washed in one of the above solutions, and then 
thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water by means of 
abrush, | 
2. Soiled Clothing, Towels, Napkins, Bedding, etc., 
should be immediately immersed in the carbolic solu- 
tion, in the sick-room, and soaked for one or more hours. 
They should then be wrung out and boiled in the soap- 
suds solution for one hour. Articles such as beds, 
woollen clothing, ete., which cannot be washed, should 
at the end of the disease be referred to the Health De- 
partment, if such is within reach, for disinfection or 
destruction ; or if there is no public disinfection, these 
goods should be thoroughly exposed to formaldehyde 
gas, as noted later. 
3. Food and Drink. Food thoroughly cooked and 
drinks that have been boiled are free from disease germs. 
Food and drinks, after cooking or boiling, if not immedi- 
ately used, should be placed when cool in clean dishes 
or vessels and covered. In the presence of an epidemic 
of cholera or typhoid fever, milk and water used for 
drinking, cooking, washing dishes, ete., should be 
boiled before using, and when cholera is prevalent all 
persons should avoid eating uncooked fruit, fresh vege- 
tables, and ice. Instead of boiling milk may be heated 
to 80° C. for one-half hour. 
4, Discharges of all Kinds from the Mouth, Nose, Blad- 
der, and Bowels of patients suffering from contagious 
diseases should be received into glass or earthen vessels 
containing the carbolic or bichloride of mercury solu- 
tion, or milk of lime, or they should be removed on 
pieces of cloth, which are immediately immersed in one 
