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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    Appendix No. 3. there is reason to believe an outbreak may be expected, especially in regard to tiie following :— I.—Measures to he adopted tvhen there is a threatened invasion of Epidemic Cholera. 1. All officers, but more particularly officers command- ing, and medical officers doing duty with troops, and in charge of station and other hospitals, will make them- selves acquainted with every detail bearing on the health of the troops, and the sanitary condition of the surround- ings of barracks and camps. 2. Every insanitary condition within the limits of barracks and camps will be promptly remedied or abated, aud representations made to Local Boards, or others entrusted with sanitary powers, for the removal of nuisances in the neighbourhood. 3. As much cubic space and superficial area as practi- cable will be afforded to each individual living in barracks. 4. The ventilation of rooms will be carefully at- tended to, especially at night, and means taken to pre- vent apertures for ventilating purposes being closed. The windows of all barrack rooms will be opened during the daytime. 5. The floors of barrack rooms will not be washed in wet weather, but dry scrubbed. 6. Authority will be obtained, if necessary, for the cleaning and lime-washing of walls and ceilings in quarters, hospitals, barracks, and stables. 7. Ashpits and cesspits will be regularly emptied, and the walls disinfected by means of quicklime or milk of lime made from quicklime. Old accumulations (if such exist) will not, however, be disturbed, but the surfaces treated with a free use of quicklime. 8. All urinals, latrines, sinks, and drains, will be thoroughly flushed at short intervals, and afterwards disinfected by solutions of lime or chloride of lime. 9. No putrefying animal or vegetable matter will be thrown into ashpits or dustbins, but will be collected in swill tubs, and removed daily. Where practicable refuse should be burned in a furnace or destructor.7' 10. All traps, ventilating shafts, and valves connected with sewers, drains, and sinks, will be examined and made good where defective. 11. Particular attention will be directed to the water supply, whether public or private. Strict investigation