Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Regulations for Army medical services / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section III. General Regulations. (d) The ceilings will be whitewashed. (e) The walls, if papered, will be re-papered, the old paper being lirst carefully scraped off. If not papered, they will be scraped and finished as before. See Eegulations for Eoyal Engineer Services, officerto ^e mec^cal °fficer m charge of the case will represent represent, in writing to the Officer Commanding the steps required and Officer to be taken under sections a, 6, and c. The Officer Com- ^0°gi^1ea?f_lng manding will give the necessary instructions for the per- structions. formance of the services. Royal 753. The services alluded to in sections d and e, para- ?ocarrTout STaPn 752, will be carried out by the Eoyal Engineers Restriction ' on a certificate in writing from the Principal or Senior of re-paper- Medical Officer. The re-papering will be restricted to the room in which the case shall have occurred. Disinfecting 754. When considered advisable, in consequence of the and°°mS occurrence in barracks or quarters of infectious disease quarters. other than those diseases named in paragraph 752, the room in which the case occurred will be vacated, tho- roughly cleaned, and limewashed, and left unoccupied, with the windows open as long as practicable ; when, in addition, it is deemed necessary to fumigate the room, one of the processes detailed in Appendix 5 will be adopted. J/barraci*011 ^n barracks, quarters, and camps, the straw of the bedding and bedding used by a person suffering from any infectious clothing of disease prior to admission to hospital will be burnt, and patients. ^e beoMmg^ with all clothing, which, in the opinion of the Medical Officer in charge of the case, has been exposed to infection, will be disinfected in accordance with para- graph 757. All soiled bedding and under clothing which has been in intimate contact with the sick will be imme- diately steeped in corrosive sublimate solution, see Appen- dix No. 5, and subsequently boiled and washed without removal to hospital for further disinfection. Such articles as are Government property will be handed over, after steeping in corrosive sublimate solution, to the officer in charge of barracks for the purpose of being boiled and washed. Such articles of clothing as cannot be steeped, boiled, and washed will be disinfected in accordance with instructions in paragraph 757 (b). Hospital 756. In hospitals the bedding, clothing, &c, used by dTs1nfec^hd°W Patients suffering from infectious diseases will be disin- &C ' fected in accordance with instructions in paragraph 757. Whenever practicable barrack bedding will be used for cases of cholera. All soiled bedding and underclothing which has been in intimate contact with the sick will be