Show DIPHTHERIA DAGGERS Rules to Prevent and Restrict the Dread Disease In view of the prevalence of that greatest great-est of all scourges Diphtheria in this city we publish tho following set of rules approved ap-proved by the best medical authorities Recent investigations having proved that the poison of diphtheria is portable communicable com-municable by infection and capable ot reproducing itself outside of the human body diphtheria must now bo ranked as I both a contagious and infectious disease The following rules are therefore mora imperative im-perative than ever before IWhen a child or young person has a sore throat I bad odor to its breath and especially if it has fever it should immediately i immedi-ately be separated and kept secluded from all other persons except necessary attendants attend-ants until it bo oscortalned whether or not it has diphtheria or some othor communi caole disease 2Every person known to be sick with diphtheria should be promptly and effectually effect-ually isolated from tho public Only those persons who aro actually necessary should have charge of or visit the patient and these visitors should be restricted in their Intercourse with other individuals Chi dren residing in a house where there is a case of diphtheria should not be permitted to attend school 3 When a case of diphtheria I fully developed de-veloped the same precautions in regard to relnrd free ventilation disposal and disinfection of discharges bed or body linen and so forth isolation during convalescence or management of tho corpse should death un fortunately occur etc etc ought to be enforced which have already been recommended recom-mended regard to smallpox 4It is particularly important that partoularly Important persons per-sons whose throats are tender or sore from any cause should avoid possible exposure to the contagion of diphtheria Children under ten years of age are in much greater d anger of taking the disease and after thoy do take it of dying from it than aro grown persons But adults are not exempt ex-empt and mild cases in them may cause whole series of fatal attacks among chil dren amonR chi 5Numerous instances are recorded where tho contagion of diphtheria has reamed re-amed its virulence for weeks or months in cesspools heaps of decaying vegetable matter t mat-ter damp walls etc and been carried for l ong distances in clothing in sewers in waste pipes from stationary washstands and in other conduits Hence all sewer connections and other carriers of filth should be well ventilated and disinfected and children particularly should not be al l lowed to breathe the air of any wator closet cesspool or sewer Into which discharges from patients sick with diphtheria have entered nor to drink water or milk which has been exposed to such air or tho atmosphere atmo-sphere of the sick room C Beware of any person who has a sore throat do not kiss such a person or take his or her breath do not drink from the same cup blow the same whistle nor put his pencil or pen into your mouth 7Do not wear nor handle clothing which has been worn by a person during sickness or convalescence from diphtheria |