Yellow fever: its nature, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis, and quarantine regulations relating thereto / by Officers of the US Marine-Hospital Service, together with an abstraction of the report of the medical officers detailed as a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever.

  • United States. Public Health Service.
Date:
1889
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    the premises of the patieut are the tripod on which these measures will rest. TKEATMENT AT HOME POSSIBLE, BUT NOT ADVISABLE. Should removal of the patient be impracticable, rigid asepsis of his environment will frequently, and, under the conditions of life above described, generally, allow us to treat him at home without establishing a focus of infection; but it is less satisfactory and involves greater risk. There should be uo question of suspects, the handling^ Prompt isou- of whom is by far the most difficult question of house quar- tloL'™' ^ antine, as the cases among the people we are considering should be discovered early—within twelve, or at most twenty-four hours—moved away, and the place disinfected before it is capable of conveying infection to the other in- mates of the house. REMOVE ALL NON-IMMUNES VS^HEN POSSIBLE. If the patient is treated in his house, it is very advisable, 1 do not say necessary, to move the other nonimmune inmates out of the house. Should the people be in tents the well-known methods of the detention camp apply. BetentioB These are well known, and if the condition be such that*^™^' they can be used will prevent almost with certainty any infection. The problem here is simpler still, and the same principles apply, only we always move the patient. There are no suspects. I think we can always prevent the infection Suspect*. of a well-situated, well-handled camp. Should we fail the camp is to be moved, disinfecting by aeration or otherwise all articles suspected of being infected. HOSPITAL TO BE CONSIDERED AN INFECTED PLACE, BUT KEPT FREE IF POSSIBLE. The hospital, regular or improvised, at which these peo. pie are treated must be treated as an infected place, but we can very generally prevent its infection if we have con- trol of it from the beginning. 3934 4