Dues And Port Charges On Shipping In Foreign And Colonial Ports Edited By R Ritherdon Sixteenth Edition Of The Work Previously Edited By Gd Urquhart

Author : George Reid
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781235933400
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Practical Sanitation; A Handbook for Sanitary Inspectors and Others Interested in Sanitation written by George Reid and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...which have to be disinfected or cleansed should always be disinfected or cleansed without delay. The influence of exposure to sunlight and fresh air in the destruction of infection should be borne in mind. "10. Special precautions of cleanliness and disinfection are necessary with regard to infective matters discharged from the bodies of the sick. Among discharges which it is proper to treat as infective are those which come in cases of small-pox and scarlatina from the affected skin; in cases of cholera and enteric fever from the intestinal canal; in enteric fever also the urine; in cases of diphtheria and scarlatina from the nose and throat; likewise, in cases of any eruptive or other epidemic fever, the general exhalations of the sick. The caution which is necessary with regard to such matters must, of course, extend to whatever is imbued with them; care must be taken that bedding, clothing, towels, handkerchiefs, and other articles which have been in use by the sick may not become sources of mischief, either in the house to which they belong or in houses to which they are conveyed. So far as articles of this class can be replaced by rags or things of small value, it is best to use such things and burn them when they are soiled. Otherwise clothing and infected articles should be subjected to the disinfectant of the sick room before washing or be removed for disinfection by steam heat. "In enteric fever and cholera the evacuations should be regarded as capable of communicating an infectious quality to any nightsoil with which they are mingled in privies, drains, or cesspools; and after such disinfection of them as is practicable, they should be disposed of without delay and under the safest conditions that local circumstances permit. They should...