CAUSING ACUTE INFECTIONS. 93 
diphtheria patients, the bacilli may be carried in the 
throat for long periods of time without causing any 
of the symptoms of the disease. These diphtheria car¬ 
riers may be the starting points of epidemics if they 
are not detected. The writer traced a serious outbreak 
in an orphan asylum to a boy, apparently healthy, 
whose duty it was to carry food from the kitchen to 
the children. 
Fig. 12.—Organisms of Vincent’s angina, showing spirillum 
and fusiform bacillus. 
All discharges from the nose and mouth should 
be collected on paper napkins and burned. A paper 
napkin should be held over the nose and mouth while 
coughing or sneezing. All bed-linen and utensils used 
by the patient should be soaked in a 5 per cent, solu¬ 
tion of carbolic acid and boiled. The sickroom must 
be fumigated and cleaned after the manner described 
under Disinfection. All well persons, including the 
Disinfec¬ 
tion 
