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Removal of sur-
4. The immediate removal of all surface-filth, garbage,
3. The most scrupulous cleanliness should be rigidly
Importance of
face filth, etc.:
Drying of
humid and decomposing materials, and the drying of such localities
enforced in everything that pertains to the patients and to liness.
scrupulous clean-
surfaces.
and all wet surfaces by means of surface drainage, dry sand
their apartments. In no case should a sponge or towel, or any
or earth, and desiccating with lime or charcoal if at hand.
article of clothing that has been used upon one of this class
of patients, be used upon any other patient, unless the
Special ventil-
5. Order such improvement in the ventilation of all occu-
article SO employed has first been effectually cleansed and
ation and the
standard supply pied apartments as will insure the steady supply of not less
boiled. All such contaminated articles must be treated as
of air.
than from twenty to forty cubic feet of fresh external air to
being held for the time in domestic quarantine, and they
each person every minrtt by day and by night. Also let
should not be released from such rigid restrictions until
Personal cloth-
Sunlight.
into all places an abundance of sunlight.
after having been washed and subjected to a boiling heat,
ing, towels
sponges, etc. to
be specially dis-
unless treated by direct application of vapor of bromine,
infected, etc.
Systematic
6. If the infected quarters or place must continue to be
drainage.
chlorine, or permanganate of potash in solution. The attend-
Cleanliness of
occupied many days, institute a system of thorough and
ants upon the sick with these maladies should give scrupu-
nurses and atten-
deep drainage of the entire locality also take measures for
dants.
lous attention to personal cleanliness.
Water-supply. securing the best water-supply.
4. Thorough dryness should be always enforced in the
Importance of
Cheerfulness
7. From the first, and continually, call into operation all
sick-room: the floors should be dry-cleaned, and the local
dryness; special
means of local
and hope.
proper means for increasing the cheerfulness, hopefulness,
desiccation.
atmosphere specially desiccated by means of strong through
and general morale of all patients and attendants, and let
and through air currents, or, in the absence of such ventila-
Attention to
hy- all the principles of hygiene be brought into their fullest
gienic laws.
tion, by the use of special dryers, e. g., quicklime, or sul-
operation in the persons and apartments, and throughout
phuric acid, distributed on shallow plates; or very dry sand
the entire locality in which endemic infection prevails or is
laid as a coating on the floors, and frequently removed.
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liable to prevail.
On shipboard with infectious diseases, such drying of the
Means for pro-
local atmosphere is of special importance and it is proper
ducing a dry at-
osphere in
Hygienic man-
to remark that the writer has succeeded best in securing board.
wards or on ship-
Special Hygienic Management of Patients and Wards:
agement of pa-
tients and wards.
Ventilation, Disinfection, Distribution, Isolation, etc.
such desiccation by means of special ventilation, dry-clean-
ing the floors, and the free use of dried sand coatings, with
Only one kind
1. Avoid allowing more than one of the types or kinds
the employment of quicklime, etc., as here mentioned.
of infectious dis-
ease to be allow-
of really infectious disease at one time in the same apart-
ed in a single
ward.
ment. This rule is particularly important in managing the
5. Patients with other diseases should not be permitted to
Nature and ex-
infectious diseases comprised in the Second class.
tent of personal
visit wards devoted to typhus or other infectious maladies,
isolation required
for infectious dis-
and in guarding against the spread of any of the infections, of eases.
Patients not to
2. Prohibit the accumulation of large numbers of patients
the second as well as of the first class, there should be no
be aggregated in
great numbers.
suffering from these maladies in one apartment or upon a
unnecessary intercourse between the apartments assigned to
small area and if ever it should be necessary to have any-
the different diseases.
thing like the usually allotted number of patients in a ward,
let the ventilation of such an apartment be improved and
Ventilation and
6. Whatever other diseases or surgical cases may, from
All unhealed
kept in the most effectual operation. When practicable,
wounds to be ab-
air-space must be
necessity, be suffered to remain in the same ward, or upon
solutely preclud-
increased in an
augmenting ratio
there should be an allotment of from 1,500 to 2,500 cubic
ed from the pres-
the same floor with the second class of infections, all un- ence of
infections
upon the numbers
ggr egated.
feet of air-space to each patient in such a ward.
of second class.
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