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

Date:
1913
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

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

    9/174 page 4
    — 4 - escape and that nothing is removed from the house, and the disinfector (mubakhar) and sheikh el harah should be ordered to attend. 4. —A list should then be made of all contacts, viz,, inhabitants of the house and nearest relatives, with the assistance of the sheikh el harah, who should seal the list after having made sure that it is complete. 5. —The patient should be removed to the hospital for infectious diseases in the ambulance. If there is no special hospital for infectious diseases Medical Officers must arrange for a temporary one (see para. 90 et seq.). The ambulance must be disinfected after use. No patient should be removed to hospital who is in a dying state, or when it is thought that removal will affect the patient injuriously, but all cases treated in their own houses must be properly isolated (see paras. 70 and 71) and must be specially reported to the Divisional Inspector. 6. —All contacts must then be examined and disin- fected; they must be seen daily for ten days afterwards. A special time and place should be appointed for this daily examination at which the sheikh el harah should be present. If thought necessary, contacts may be isolated (see para. 24). One or two of the contacts should remain in the house during the disinfection ; the others should be
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3