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Sat 6 Apr 1878 - Warwick Examiner and Times (Qld. : 1867 - 1919)
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TYPHOID OR DRAIN FEVER, AND
HOW TO PREVENT ITS SPREADING.
This fever is called Drain Fever, from its
constant association with bad and imperfect
drainage in houses. It ie called Gastric Fever
from its chief seat being in the stomach and
bowels. At one time it was confounded with
Typhus Fever, but it differs from that disease
in many respects ; hence it is called Typhoid
Fever. It is also called Low Fever, from the
great exhaustion and weakness which attends it.
It is a highly Contagious Fever.
The means by which this disease may be pre-
vented from spreading are very simple, and
depend upon the fact, that the poison by which
it spreads is almost entirely contained in the
discharges from the bowels. Dr. W. Budd
gives the following excellent directions for pre-
venting the spread of this disease. He says the
discharges from the bowels infect—
1.—The air of tlie sick room.
2.—The bed and body linen of the patient.
3.—The privy and the cesspool, or the drains
proceeding from them.
From the privy or the drain, the poison
often soaks into the near streams, and infects the
drinking water. This last, when it happens, is,
of all forms of fever-poisoning, the most deadly.
In these various ways, the infection proceeding
from the bowel-discharges often spreads the
fever far and wide. The one great thing to aim
at, therefore, is to disinfect these discharges on
their very escape from the body, and before
they are carried from the sick room. This may
be perfectly done by the use of disinfectants.
One of the best is made of green copperas.
This substance, which is used by all shoemakers,
is very cheap, and may be had everywhere. A
pound and a half of green copperas to a gallon
of water is the proper strength. A. teacupful
of this liquid, put into the nightpan every time
before it is used by the patient, renders the
bowel-discharge perfectly harmless. To dis-
infect the bed and body linen, and bedding
generally, some Carbolic Powder, or the
Universal Disinfecting Powder (non-poisonous)
is more convenient. These powders should be
sprinkled, by means of a common dredger, on
soiled spots of the linen, and about the room,
to purify the air. All articles of bed and body
linen should be plunged, immediately on their
removal from the bed, into a bucket of water
containing a teaspoonful of chloride of lime or
half a teacupful of Condy's Fluid, and should
be boiled before being washed. The privy, or
closet, and all drains communicating witn it,
should be flushed twice daily with the green
copperas liquid or carbolic acid, diluted with
water. In the event of death, the body should
be placed, as soon as possible, in a coffin sur-
rounded with charcoal, sprinkled with disinfec-
tants. Early burial is, on all accounts, desi-
rable. In towns and villages where the fever is
already prevalent, the Iast rule should be put in
force for all houses, whether there be fever In
them or not, and for all public drains. As the
hands of those attending on the sick often
become unavoidably soiled by the disobliges
from the bowels, they should be frequently
washed.
The sick room should be kept well ventilated,
day and night. The greatest possible care
should be taken with regard to the drinking
water. Where there is the slightest risk of its
having become tainted with fever-poison, water
should be got from a pure source, or should at
Ieast be boiled before being drunk. Imme-
diately after the illness is over, whether ending
in death or recovery, the dresses worn by the
nurses should be washed or destroyed, and the
bed and room occupied by the sick should be
thoroughly disinfected. These ate golden rules.
Where they are neglected the fever may become
a deadly scourge. Where they are strictly car-
ried out, it seldom spreads beyond the people
first attacked. A yard of thin wide-width gutta
percha placed under the blanket, under the
breech of the patient, by effectually preventing
the discharges from soaking into the bed, is a
great additional safeguard.—National Health
 
Society.

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    1878 'TYPHOID OR DRAIN FEVER, AND HOW TO PREVENT ITS SPREADING.', Warwick Examiner and Times (Qld. : 1867 - 1919), 6 April,    p. 2. , viewed 01 Apr 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article82120702
  
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