Instructions on procedure in outbreaks of cholera.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Dākhilīyah
Date:
1918
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Credit: Instructions on procedure in outbreaks of cholera. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ae) a Governorate in which the school is situated becoming infected, the headmaster should send daily to the Department of PublJic Health Medical Officer a list of absentees for investigation. 3. Boarding pupils should not be allowed to return to their villages for visiting if the village is infected. The required information can aye obtained from the Medical Officer of the Markaz, or the Mudiriya Health Inspector, where it concerns a Markaz other than that in which the school is situated. 4, If cholera breaks out in the town in which the school is placed, the school hours should be fixed so that the day scholars finish their lessons before the dinner hour. The Medical Officer in charge must make as frequent inspections as possible of the school, devoting attention to the water supply, the eooking and food-storing arrangements, and the cleanliness of the latrines. The recommendations in the pamphlet,‘ Cholera Precautions in Schools, Barracks, etc.,” under the heading of *‘ Cooks, Marmitons, and Servants,”’ must be enforced rigidly. 5. If in the opinion of the Public Health authorities the closure of the school is necessary, this will only be done on the recommendation of the Central Administration of the Department of Public Health to the Ministry itself. Such closure will only be recommended in excep- tional cases, e.g. :— (a) Severe outbreak in the Markaz town, with the villages unaffected. (6) Occurrence of cases showing that the school itself is a centre of infection. 6. On the occurrence of a case in a school, the headmaster will at once isolate the patient in a room by himself and will inform the Medical Officer of the school and the Medical Officer of the Markaz or Qism by the quickest possible route. Any vomit or stool, or any latrine used by the patient should at once be disinfected without awaiting the arrival of the Medical Officer. Nobody must be allowed to leave the school pending the arrival of the Medical Officer. D. EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS ADMINISTRATION. The arrangements with that Administration will be communicated to Medical Officers when occasion arises.