The prevention of contagious diseases : a practical treatise on disinfectants, antiseptics, and other sanitary agents / by Charles A. Cameron.

  • Charles Alexander Cameron
Date:
1871
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Credit: The prevention of contagious diseases : a practical treatise on disinfectants, antiseptics, and other sanitary agents / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cleanliness.—-Keep your house and premises as clean as possible. Do not allow the ash-pit, &c., to become too full. Dusting a room with a brush is worse than useless. Furniture should be frequently well wiped with cloths and chamois. Healthy Dwellings. —Select a dry site for your dwel¬ ling. Let plenty of light and air enter. Every room should have ventilating openings—fifty square inches per person in the case of sleeping apartments. The sewer should not run beneath the house. Leaking sewers are a common cause of typhoid fever. Do not. crowd your bedroom with furniture, and dispense with bed curtains. Green wall paper often contains arsenic. Nurseries are often overcrowded. Do not oblige your servants to sleep in damp cellars. Pools of stagnant water should not be suffered near a dwelling. Disease in the House.—When a contagious disease breaks out in your house remove all the persons who can be spared. Do not let your children go to school, as they might convey the contagion to other children. When the illness is over, get the patient’s and nurse’s clothes and bedding promptly disinfected. Do not let the con¬ valescent from scarlatina mix with other people until the skin-peeling is at an end, and several warm baths have been taken.