Plague : instructions on procedure in outbreaks of plague / Ministry of Interior [Egypt], Department of Public Health.

Date:
1913
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Credit: Plague : instructions on procedure in outbreaks of plague / Ministry of Interior [Egypt], Department of Public Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — 59 duty great care must be taken that both they and the clothes which they have worn are thoroughly disin- fected. They must also be carefully inspected to see that they are in good health. 95.—Police and attendants must be strictly forbid- den to walk about within the camp with bare feet, or to use the latrines provided for the patients. Dieting 96.—Attendants must be made attendants. ^o understand that they are on no account to leave the camp ; arrangements must be made to have their food brought to them by their friends when they cannot be provided for in the camp; when possible they should be dieted as contacts {see para. 99). Visits 97.— Arrangements should be to patients. made with omdas to prevent people from collecting in the neighbourhood of hospitals, but near relatives of patients may be allowed to come close to the huts to talk to their sick with the permission of the Medical Officer and only during his evening visit. When patients are dying the relatives should be informed, and two near relatives may be allowed to enter the Hospital and remain with the patient until death ensues. The relatives should be warned of the danger of infection, and before leaving the Hospital they must be thoroughly disinfected. They must subsequently be kept under observation for ten days.