nd then close the room
up tight for twenty-four hours, until the dust has settled; then enter
gently so as not to disturb the dust and wipe off everything in the room
with a cloth wrung out of a corrosive sublimate (1-1000) solution. Floors,
woodwork, furniture, bedstead must be so washed or wiped, and use for
crevices pure carbolic acid, applying it with a brush. The walls should be
washed down with the 1-1000 corrosive sublimate solution. Then leave the
windows wide open. Sulphur fumigation is not considered so certain in its
results.

HOW TO TREAT SPUTUM FROM TUBERCULOUS PATIENTS.--Sputum is dangerous when
it is dry. The sputum cups should be of china or paper, so that they may
be either boiled or burned. There should be no crevices. The cup should be
kept covered and the sputum moist so that none of the germs on the sputum
becoming dry may escape into the air of the room. The china vessel should
be frequently cleaned and, before the contents are thrown away, the germs
must be destroyed by putting the sputum in a two per cent solution of
carbonate of soda for one hour. The paper cups and contents must be burned
before the contents have time enough to become dry. In infectious
diseases, all discharges from the nose, mouth, bowels and bladder should
be received in a china vessel containing carbolic acid or milk of lime.

In Diphtheria the expectoration, discharge from the nose and vomited
matter should be received in paper napkins and burned at once in the room,
or if this is impossible, boiled before being taken from the room.

Use the same treatment for the discharges in Scarlet fever. Two sets of
cups should be kept and boiled in the soda solution before being used. All
vessels, tubes or cups that are used for the mouth in diphtheria,
syphilis, or cancer should be kept in a 1-40 solution of carbolic acid and
boiled before being used by another patient.

Bed-pans used in cases of cancer, dysentery, typhoid fever and, in short,
in all infectious diseases, are to be soaked in a 1-20 (five per cent)
carbolic acid solution and boiled before again coming into general use.

Sheets and clothing stained with typhoid fever discharges must be washed
out at once, or soaked in a disinfectant solution and steamed before being
sent to the laundry. Also the bedding and clothing in any infectious or
malignant disease should always be put to soak, at once, in a 1-20 (five
per cent) carbolic acid solution, or else steamed or boil