Interstate Quarantine Regulations.

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Interstate Quarantine Regulations.
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attack of the disease, shall be at once vaccinated or isolated for a
period of fourteen day.
(7) During the prevalence of cholera all the dejecta of cholera
patients shall be at once disinfected as hereinafter provided, to prevent
possible contamination of the food and water supply.
Article IV.
Yellow Fever.
In addition to the foregoing regulations contained in Article III the
following special provisions are made with regard to the prevention of
the introduction and spread of yellow fever:
(1) Localities infected with yellow fever, and localities contiguous
thereto, should be depopulated as rapidly and as completely as possible,
so far as the same can be safely done; persons from noninfected locali-
ties and who have not been exposed to infection being allowed to
leave without detention. Those who have been exposed, or who come
from infected localities, shall be required to undergo a period of deten-
tion and observation of ten days from the date of last exposure in a
camp of probation or other designated place.
(2) Persons who have been exposed may be permitted to proceed
without detention to localities incapable of becoming infected and
whose authorities are willing to receive them and after arrangements
have been perfected, to the satisfaction of the proper health officer, for
their detention in said localities for a period of ten days.
(3) The suspects who are isolated under the provisions of paragraph
1, Article III, shall be kept free from all possibility of infection.
(4) So far as possible, the sick should be removed to a central loca-
tion for treatment.
(5) Buildings in which yellow fever has occurred, and localities
believed to be infected with said disease, must be disinfected as
thoroughly as possible.
(6) As soon as the disease becomes epidemic the railroad trains
carrying persons allowed to depart from a city or place infected with
yellow fever shall be under medical supervision.
(7) Common carriers from the infected districts, or believed to be
carrying persons and effects capable of conveying infection, shall not
be allowed to proceed, except as provided for by paragraph 2.
(8) At the close of an epidemic the houses where sickness has occurred,
and the contents of the same, and houses and contents that are pre-
sumably infected, shall be disinfected as hereinafter prescribed.
Article V.
Disinfection.
For Cholera.
(1) The dejecta and vomited matters of cholera patients shall be
received into vessels containing an acid solution of bichloride of mer-
cury (bichloride of mercury 1 part, hydrochloric acid 2 parts, water
1,000 parts) or other efficient germicidal agent.

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(2) All bedding, clothing, and wearing apparel soiled by the dis-
charges of cholera patients shall be disinfected by one or more of the
following methods:
(a) By complete immersion for thirty minutes in one of the above-
named disinfecting solutions.
(b) By boiling for fifteen minutes, all articles to be completely sub-
merged.
(c) By exposure to steam at a temperature of 100o to 102o C. for
thirty minutes after such temperature is reached.
(3) Any woodwork or furniture contaminated by cholera discharges
shall be disinfected by thorough washing with a germicidal solution as
provided in paragraph 1, Article III.
For Yellow Fever.
(4) Apartments infected by occupancy of patients sick with yellow
fever shall be disinfected by one or more of the following methods:
(a) By thorough washing with one of the above-named germicidal
solutions. If apprehension is felt as to the poisonous effects of the
mercury the surfaces may, after two hours, be washed with clear water.
(b) Thorough washing with 5 per cent solution of pure carbolic
acid.
(c) By sulphur dioxide, twenty-four to forty-eight hours' exposure,
the apartments to be rendered as air-tight as possible.
(5) Bedding, wearing apparel, carpets, hangings, and draperies
infected by yellow fever shall be disinfected by one of the following
methods:
(a) By exposure to steam at a temperature of 100o to 102o C. for thirty
minutes after such temperature is reached.
(b) By boiling for fifteen minutes, all the articles to be completely sub-
merged.
(c) By thorough saturation in a solution of bichloride of mercury
1-1000, the articles being allowed to dry before washing.
Articles injured by steam (rubber, leather, containers, etc.), to the
disinfection of which steam is inapplicable, shall be disinfected by thor-
oughly wetting all surfaces with (a) a solution of bichloride of mercury
1-800, or (b) a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, the articles being
allowed to dry in the open air prior to being washed with water, or (c)
by exposure to sulphur fumigation in an apartment air-tight, or as nearly
so as possible.
For Smallpox.
(6) Apartments infected by smallpox shall be disinfected by one or
both of the following methods:
(a) Exposure to sulphur dioxide for twenty-four to forty eight hours.
(b) Washing with a solution of bichloride of mercury 1-1000, or a
5 per cent solution of pure carbolic acid.
(7) Clothing, bedding, and articles of furniture exposed to the
infection of smallpox shall be disinfected by one or more of the
following methods:
(a) Exposure to sulphur dioxide for twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
(b) Immersion in a solution of bichloride of mercury 1-1000, or 5 per
cent solution of pure carbolic acid.
(c) Exposure to steam at a temperature of 100o to 102o C. for thirty
minutes after such temperature is reached.
(d) Boiling for fifteen minutes, the articles to the completely sub-
merged.

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