Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — QUEEN ESTHER! [ARTICLE]

QUEEN ESTHER!

The Rensselaer Choral Union has engaged Mr, W. B. Rioe. of Boston, Mass., to conduct them in this brilliant concert piece. Concerts will take place in about ten days, and will be elegant F When Hayes lays aside his official robes they should be disinfected or buried.

Diphtheria and Soarlet FeverThe following extract from a circular issued by Dr. James Crane of the Brooklyn, N. Y.. Health Department, has important suggestions whicn are equally applicable to city and eouncry, wherever these contagious diseases exist: Diphtheria and scarlet fever are highly contagious diseases, attacking persons of all ages. The may be contracted from persons that are already affected, from the clothes they 1 have worn and from everything which i has been in the room with them.— Even the walls of the room may infect persons coming into it after the patient has recovered, unless the poison is destroyed. In order to prevent i their spread in a family or house j where they exist and to promote the ; recovery of the persons attached the | following simple measures should be : conscientiously and rigidly carried out thereby preventing much suffering and saving human life:—-An upper, sunny room, provided if possible with an open fire place, and with no other children on the same floor, should be arranged for the patient by removing j everything from it which can possibly ' be spared, such as books, clothing and ’ w.ndow curtains, remembering that ’ when once the patient has entered the room nothing can with safety here i moved until disinfected or fumigated. One or ;.. o adults should take the entire charge of the patient, under no circumstances coming in contact with ; other persons, more especially child- ' ren. Open windows and open fireplaces, with fire in them day and night, avoiding draughts and chilly air, protect the sick and those who nurse them. Nothing should be removed from the room when the patient has once entered it until it has been thoroughly disinfected or fumigtfted. Procure fiom a drug store one pound of sulphate of zinc: the price | should not exceed thirty cents. Put into an ordinary water pail eight tablespooufuis of sulphate of zinc and four os common salt, and to this add ; one gallon of boiling* water. This disinfecting solution is to be kept in the room, and into it should be placed and kept for one hour every article of soiled clothing, bedding, hand kerchiefs, &e. When they are removed from this they should be put into boiling water before being washed. The dishes and spoons used by the patient ; should be put into boiling water before they are permitted! to leave the j room. Remembei that every article which is in the mom can convey the disease and that nothins should go from it until the ooison which it might carry is destroy ed. See that the whole house from cellar to attic is clean. Keep the cellar dry, well ventilated and well whitewashed, never allow even for a day, gat b.ige or other filth to be kept in it. Open the windows of sleeping rooms every day for as long a time as possible, fresh air Leing an excellent disinfectant.