Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham.

  • Robert J. Blackham
Date:
1921
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Credit: Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ants, sunlight and oxygen, and is therefore a very valuable purifier, When a case of infectious disease occurs the following yules should be observed :— (1) Whenever a steam disinfector is available all articles of bedding, carpets, hangings, etc., which are not likely to be injured by steam, should be sent to the disin- fecting station. (2) When a steam disinfector is not available cotton and linen articles should be boiled for half an hour. Blan- kets and other woollen articles and coir fibre should be soaked for two hours in saponified cresol in a strength of one teaspoonful to each pint of water. Cloth articles should be sprayed with a five per cent. solution of pure carbolic acid in water and exposed to the sun for three or four days. Leather articles should be sponged with a one per cent. solution of formalin. (3) Feeding and cooking utensils should be boiled for 15 minutes. Immersion in a 20 per cent. hot solution of washing soda suffices, however, for most infectious diseases, but it will not serve in cases of infection by the tubercle bacillus. Table knives, mounted forks, and similar articles which are likely to be damaged by high temperatures should be soaked for two hours in a one per cent. solution of formalin. (4) The walls of the room occupied by the patient should be scraped and re-limewashed. (5) Furniture, floors, and woodwork should be scrubbed with hot water and soap. (6) Earthen floors should be saturated with a disin- fectant preparation, preferably kerosene emulsion.
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