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

44 NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
5. Milk of I'nne {irhneirash). Pour on 1 quart of quick-lime, broken intosmall
ijieces, 1 quart of water. As soon as reduced to powder add 3-
quarts of water. Store in well-closed vessel. ^lake fresh supply every
few days, as it does not keep well. Can be kept much longer by pouring:
one-half cup of kerosene on top to exclude air.
(j. Sulphur finnlgation. The room must be vacated. Close as tightly
as possible every opening, fire-place by stutting tiiroat of chimney witli.
old bags or plenty of straw; cracks around doors and windows by calking
with tow or cotton, etc.
Place small lumps or powdered sulphur, in
the proportion of 3 pounds for every 1,000 cubic feet of air space to bedisinfected,
in an iron pot or pan free from cracks. Set the vessel, if it
has no legs, on bricks in the bottom of a tub containing 2 or 3 inches of
hot water (to put out fire in case burning sulphur should leak out or
overflow); light with red-hot coals or by pouring on a tablespoonful
alcohol and applying a match. Be careful not to inhale the fumes. Close
the door of exit as tight as possible. Keep the room closed for twelve
hours, excei^t in cases where family has no other room to sleep, then,
six hours. Then open all doors and windows and air thoroughly.
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NOTE.
practically established that if the instructions given in this circular
ai'e faithfully carried out these justly dreaded diseases will not spreads
Such being the fact the responsibility of those whose duty it is to carry
them out is great.
A positive })romise from the attending physician to the County Superintendent
of Health, or to the municipal medical health officer, to see
that the instructions are faithfully carried out would relieve the latter of
responsibility.
The Count}' Superintendent of Health or the municipal medical health
officer should not fail to promptly furnish to both the attending physician
and the liouseholder in whose family either of the diseases mentioned
in section 9 occurs a copy of these instructions.
Any further information desired will be cheerfully furnished.
RICH'D H. LEWIS, M. D.,
Secretary.
A copy of these instructions, together with a copy of
the new hiw, was mailed to every registered physician in
ever}^ county in North Carolina except four, from the
Clerks of which no reply has been received to either of mjtwo
letters: I shall write them a^ain.* The total number
*The list of physicians has been made complete, and the instructions were promptly
distributed.
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