Show SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE CONCERNING EPIDEMIC lIC r First Alt Ail Treatment in iii Com Cori bating Baffling Malady O Overrunning Utah Valuable In Information for the Householder the Nurse and Jul lY Worker The following suggestions may prove pro of at Immeasurable value to any man or woman who will read remember remember remember re re- re- re member and act upon them In the present great emergency If It you will follow the dictates of at this official official cial bulletin you ou will be doing your duty to your our fellowmen and to your- your self WHAT HAT TO DO UNTIL TIlE THE DOCTOR DOCTOR DOCTOR DOC DOC- TOR COMES lES If It you feel a sudden chill chIli followed follow follow- fallow I ed cd by muscular pain headache backache backache backache back back- ache unusual tiredness and fever fe go to bed See that there Is enough bed clothIng clothing clothing cloth- cloth Ing to keep you warm Open all windows In your bedroom and keep them open at all times Take medicine to open the bowels freely If there Is cough or sputum or running of the nose care should be betaken betaken betaken taken that all such discharges are collected on gauze or rag rag or paper napkin and burned Take some food such as milk mUk egg and milk mUk or broth every four hours Stay in a bed until a tolls tills you that it Is safe sate to get up Allow no one else to to sleep in the same Bame room Protect others by sneezing and coughing into handkerchiefs or cloths which should be boiled or burned that who ever gives you water or food or enters the sick sickroom sickroom sickroom room for any other purpose shall v wear a gauze mask which may be made at home of six to to eight folds of at gauze and which should cover the nose and mouth and be tied behind the head Remember that these masks must be kept clean must 1st be put on outside the sick room must not be handled after they are tied on and must be boiled holled 30 minutes and dried every time they are taken off TO HOUSEHOLDERS Immediately report all cases of the disease to the Board of Health Keep out of ot the sick room unless attendance Is necessary Do not handle articles coming from the sick room unless they are boiled I Allow no visitors and do not go visiting Call n a doctor for all inmates who show signs of beginning sickness Tho The usual symptoms are Inflamed ed and wate watery ry eyes discharging nose backache headache muscular pain chilliness f and fever feyer Keep away from crowded places See to it tb that at your children are arc kept warm and dry both night and day and that they do not congregate In is houses with other children Have sufficient fire in your our homo home to disperse the dampness and maintain maintain maintain main main- tain good ventilation Open your windows at night If It cool weather prevails add extra bed clothing TO FO WORKERS HH w Walk lk to work if it possible A Avoid oid the person who who coughs or sneezes Wash Vas 1 your hands before beCore eating Make Malee full rull use of all nil available sun sun- shine Do not use a 8 common towel It i iDo spreads disease Do Donot not not use the common drinking cup Should you ou cough or sn sneeze eze cover cove nose and mouth with a handkerchief Sleep Is necessary for well-being well Avoid over exertion and over eating Eat good clean food Keep away from houses where there are cases of influenza If you have had influenza stay in bed lel until your doctor says you can safely get up TO NURSES Keep clean Isolate your pat pat- When in attendance upon patients wear 8 a mask which will cover the nose and and mouth When the mask Js ds once in place do not handle It ft Change the mask-every mask two hours Owing to the scarcity of or gauze boil boll for one half hour and rinse then use the gauze again Wash Vash your your hands each time you come in contact with the patient Use Use of mercury 1000 1 or Liquor Cresol compound 1 for hand Obtain at least seven hours of sleep in each twenty-four twenty hours Insist that the patient cough expectorate expectorate expectorate ex ex- ex- ex or sneeze into cloths that may be he disinfected or burned Boil Don all dishes Keep patients patients patients' warm STATE BOARD OF HEALTH I State Capitol Salt Lake Cake City |