e liquid can be poured off.

Normal salt solution is made by using one teaspoonful of salt to a pint of
water.

CARE AND DISINFECTION OF AN INFECTED ROOM.--Carpets, upholstered
furniture, hangings, bric-a-brac, or any personal clothing, the color of
which may be destroyed by disinfection, should have been removed from the
room at the beginning of the disease.

DAILY CARE OF THE ROOM BY THE NURSE.--The furniture should be wiped off
with a damp cloth and the floor swept with a broom covered with a damp
cloth wrung out of a 1-20 (five per cent) carbolic acid solution; besides
this the floor must be rubbed thoroughly with a damp cloth every second or
third day. If the disease is contagious a damp sheet kept moist should be
hung in the line of the air currents. Cloths that are used daily should be
washed in hot soap suds and when not in use left to soak in carbolic acid
solution 1-20 (five per cent).

After the patient has recovered from an infectious disease he should
receive a hot soap and water tub or sponge bath, thorough washing of the
hair and irrigation of the ears included, followed by a thorough sponging
with a one per cent carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate (1-10,000)
solution. The finger-nails and toe-nails should be cut close and cleaned
underneath.

A nasal douche is given, and the mouth should be washed with listerine or
a saturated (five per cent) solution of boric acid. The patient is then
wrapped in clean sheets or clothes and taken in another room. Then the
bedding and clothing are made ready for sterilization.

DISINFECTION OF THE ROOM.--Brush off the mattress, wrap it in a damp sheet
wrung out of a twenty per cent solution of carbolic acid, and send to the
sterilizer. The clothes are steamed and sent to the wash room. When there
is no sterilizer the bed must be soaked in a 1-20 (five per cent) carbolic
solution, afterwards boiled and the mattress ripped apart and boiled or
burned.

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DISINFECTING THE ROOM.--Arrange all articles that are left in the room so
as to expose them the best to the fumigating substance. To disinfect with
formalin, close the room tightly, seal all cracks and openings with paste
and paper. Place an alcohol lamp in a metal dish in the center of the
room. Put in a receptacle over the lamp three fluid ounces of a forty per
cent solution of formaldehyde; have a dish of water in the room for some
time; moisten the air of the room, light the lamp a