1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 43
cheap material should be burned and the ticks boiled) and all other
articles which have been exposed to the infection should be hung on
racks, or otherwise looselj^ distributed about the room, so as to permit
free access of the gas to every part, the carpet, if there be one, being
left on the floor, and then disinfected at the same time with the room by
sulphur fumigation. Afterwards they should be taken into the open air
and thoroughly beaten and sunned.
If preferred, in cases where every article in the room can be subjected
to the process to be named, or when the I'oom cannot be made tight
enough to retain the sulphur fumes, every article in the room which can
be should be boiled and the remainder, including the floor and woodwork,
should be well washed with the bichloride solution No. 1. The
walls and ceiling should have the same solution thorouf/JiIy applied to
them or be well whitewashed.
{b). Of the. person of the recovered patient. Wash the body, including
the hair, with the bichloride solution No. 1 and put on clean clothes
that have not been in the sick-room or that have been disinfected as
prescribed in 1 (c).
(e). Of the dead hodij. Wrap the bod}' in a well-sewed sheet thoroughly
saturated with the bichloride solution No. 2 or with the chloride of lime
solution. Put two pounds of chloride of lime in the coffin.
(fO- Qf persons before leacing a house ivhicJi ]ias been, qnarantoied. Wash
at least the uncovered portions of the body—hands, face, beard and hair
—better the entire body—in the bichloride solution No. 1 and put on
clean clothes that have not at any time been exposed to the infection or
have been disinfected in the manner described. The notice of the attending
physician and visiting clergyman is called to the importance of their
observing these precautions and at least washing their hands in the
bichloride solution the last thing before leaving the room.
{e). Of a vehicle used to carry the body, living or dead, affected witJi either
of the diseases enumerated. Remove all cushions, curtains and other accessories
and disinfect by boiling or soaking in the bichloride solution No. 1
and wash out the interior with bichloride solution No. 2.
DISINFECTANTS.
1. Bichloride of mercury, solutinn No. 1. Bichloride of mercurj' 1
drachm, water 1 gallon.
2. Bicldoride of mercury, solution Xo. 2. Two drachms to the gallon.
Owing to its poisonous character a solution of bichloride should be colored
w itii bluing to prevent mistakes. It should be kept in earthen or
wooden vessels, as it corrodes metals.
3. Ztuc solution. Sulphate of zinc (white vitriol) 4 ounces, salt 2 ounces,
water 1 gallon.
4. Chloride of lime solution. Fresh chloride of lime 6 ounces, water 1
gallon.