| Show con concerning cernig Oh olera circular rell bell relative RELATIVE TIVE TO THE E EPIDEMIC it is the opinion of the board of health that with proper precaution on the part of the people no fears of cholera need be entertained the board noard has adopt edthe edhe following ing circular to combat and arrest the progress and prevent the epidemic prevalence of cholera it is necessary that the inhabitants of every city and town sh should ouid promptly resort to the most effectual purification and the best known means of and that this sanita banita sanitary cleansing and preparation should be at once anavera and very thoroughly carried into effect before any cases of cholera cb olera occur and that in the presence of the disease these sanitary duties should be enforced in every overy household and throughout the entire district experience peri perl ence enee has proved that the best way to prevent both pestilence and panic is to know and prepare for the danger it esthe is the only way to deal successfully with cholera I 1 q SANITARY CLEANSING 1 i N neglected privies 2 filth sodden grounds 3 ioui foul cellars and filthy or bad ly drained surroundings el of dwellings 4 foul and obstructed house drains 3 5 decaying and putre putrescent sebut material whether animal or vegetable 6 unventilated I 1 lamp damp and dwellings and apartments these theae localizing causes of cholera should be promptly and very thoroughly rem removed oved before a case of the disease appears in the town or district and if any source of putrescence or of excessive moisture remain these should be controlled by the tile proper cleansing drying and thorough scavenging and surface drainage with the application at the same time of quicklime and coal tar ar or crude car carbolic bolle acid whitewashing with fresh quicklime the cleansing and thorough irving drying and ventilation of cellars basements chambers and elo clo closets sets and daily care to cleanse flush ventilate and purify the sources of defilement about all premises will wil lafford afford almost complete protection if suitable ble blo care is taken of PERS PERSONAL ONAL onan HEALTH the security of personal health requires pure drinking water fresh and substantial food temperance and the needed rest and bathing of the body AND disinfectants DISINFECT ANTS the principles relating to as a means of destroying the propagation or infectious cause of cholera the tho cholera are readily understood and may be so explained to any family that the household may insure its own immunity against the introduction and spread of the disease for popular use we append a brief statement of these principles at the end of this circular and we respectfully recommend that the statement following schedule of rules and methods be given to the press and to all principals of schools superintendents of places of public resort railway depots ferries hotels and public institutions and to the masters of ships and steamboats and the conductors gorsof of passenger c trains throughout this continent believing as we do I 1 that by the II 11 timely mely and continued contina ed application of these measures the prevalence of cholera may be prevented but let the fact bo be remembered that there can be no substitutes for thorough cleaning and fresh air RULES KULES ann AND ND METHODS OF for privies water wlter closets drains and sewers eight eigl elgi it or ten pounds pound q of sulphate of iron copperas dissolved in five or six t gallons imi ibl lonis ionis of bf water with half a pint of crude carbolic acid added to the solution and briskly stirred males make the cheapest and best infecting disinfecting dis fluid for common use it cark can be procured in every town and beany by any auy family and if the carbolic acid is not at hand the solution of copperas can bo used without it to prevent privies and water closets from becoming offensive iye lye i pour a pin pint of this strong polut solution ion lon into every water closet pan or privy seat once ar or twice a d day to disinfect masses of filth privy vaults sewers and drains gradual ly pour in the tho solution until it reades reaches and nd disinfects dis infects all the tho foul material materia for the chamber vessels used by the sick and for the file of ground upon which any e excrement matter has been cast away use the solution of copperas and carbolic acid and for disinfect disinfecting infecting dis in 9 extensive masses or surfaces of putrescent materials and for drains sewer sewers sand and ditch ditches athis this disinfectant fluid may be esedor the dead oil heavy oil of coal tar or coal tar itself coal tar may be used u ed as a a paint upon the walls of cellars stables and open drains other disinfectants disinfect ants such of tho the of iron or of chloride of zinc use in privies and drains I 1 and upon foul surfaces and offensive materials quicklime is useful as in absorbent and dryer upon foul walls wall and sand in damp places and whitewashing with it should be practiced in common tenements factories basements closets and garrets to disinfect the clothing denied defiled in any manner by excremental matters from the sick throw all such matters immediately into boiling water and continue the boiling for balfan half an hour or place them in a solution covered made as follo follows ws one pound of sulphate six or eight gallons of water to which add two or three ounces of pure and strong carbolic acid this is also an excellent disinfectant for bedpans bed pans and chamber vessels also for infecting disinfecting dis floors and other denied defiled surfaces keep the soiled articles saturated until they can be boiled inthe if the acid is not at hand use the zinc water alone apartments bedding and upholstery that have been used by the sick siek with the cholera or diarrhea should be fumigated by the burning ng of several pounds of brimstone sulphur upon a defended iron pan or by crude carbolic acid chloride of lime with the place tightly closed for several hours under a physicians directions principles AND DUTIES TO BE TAUGHT 1 that thorough cleanliness domestic and civic and an abundant supply of pure water are essential means of bf preventing cholera in any household when the disease is near 2 that general ing and should be attended to in every city and town before chole cholera ramal ramai makes eq its appearance and that whenever it does appear that house and the exposed premises should be kept constantly dis infected 3 that in the tho words of the chief medical officer of great britain it appears to be character characteristic ime lWe of cholera not only of the disease in its developed and alarming form but equally of the slightest diarrhea diara hea which the epidemic can produce that all matters which the patient discharges from his stomach and bowels are that the patients power of infecting other pe sons is represented almost or quite exclusively by those discharges that they are comparatively non lion in ill infective at the moment they are discharged but afterward when undergoing decomposition acquire their maximum infective power and if they be cast away without previous they impart their own infective quality to the excremental matters with which they mingle in filth sodden earth or in repositories depositories deposit ories and conduits of filth and to 0 the effluvia wh which cla cia ell these e excremental x brein ent al matters evolve that if the tho infective material by leakage or soakage from drains or cesspools ces spools or otherwise gets access even in the smallest quantity directly or through porous soleto wells or other sources of drinking water it can infect in the most dangerous manner very large volumes of the water that the infective influence of the chol choi erale discharges attaches to whatever bedding clothing and like things have been imbued with them and aud renders these lings things ti if not infected disinfected dis capable of spreading the disease 4 Ole oie cleansing ansing and purity willful kill ful fui temp temperate orate habits 1 and wholesome diet with pure water and fresh a air are the trusted and sure means of health and security in all places and aua for all classes of people when exposed to the causes of cholera the tho watchword against ag this destructive enemy should be remove the local causes that favor the pre pro propagation pa gation gatlon of cholera ch and wherever it appears s let lot its germs be quickly ady stamped out put by p powerful disinfectants disinfect ants imbi and and special cial clai cleansing from being the most feared and destructive pestilence cholera has become entirely submissive to sanitary measures of prevention and can now be controlled and extinguished more quickly and completely than any other epidemic disease believing therefore that the people of tie the tle united states will wisely apply the suggestions which are given in this tills memorandum memorandum the undersigned undersigner under signed committee present them for forthe the purpose of hastening and making sure the most extensive thorough and speedy control of tills tilis this destroyer STEPHEN SMITH M york EDWIN 31 SNOW M D rhode rhod island C W WHITE ir D louisiana JOHN H M D illinois war WIM CLENDE CLENDENIN r v M D ohio christopher Cirni STOPHER C cox M D D C MOREAU MORRIS ma M D arow now YORK johs JOHN BL WOODWORTH sup U S M hos FRANCIS BACON bacor all ALI D connecticut HENRY hartshorne D pennsylvania ELISHA EL IsirA HARRIS if di D rew new e W york chicago post |
