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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    — 42 disinfecting solution and allowed to remain there for four hours before being removed. Linen or clothing which has become soiled through discharges should be changed at once and disinfected as above. 4. Spoons and other metal table utensils should be ] dunged into boiling water immediately after being- used by the patient. The table utensils, water vessels, and toilet articles must be kept in the sick room and must not be used by any one but the patient. 5. The stools, urine, and sputum of the patient should be received into a vessel containing a small quantity of carbolic acid solution (5%). The amount of disin- fectant must subsequently be made at least equal in volume to the amount of material to be disinfected ; the vessel must then be covered and allowed to stand for half an hour before the contents are emptied into the closet. 6. While in the patient’s room a large overall (gallabia) should be worn which should completely cover the clothes ; on leaving the room the overall must be taken off. 7. The hands must always be disinfected with sublimate solution after touching the patient and great care must be taken never to use table utensils (spoons, cups, gullas, etc.), which have been used by the patient. 8. The floor of the patient’s room must be disinfected regularly twice a day with sublimate solution, and
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