1067. Treatment of dejecta and precautions to prevent the spread of disease.
- The dejecta should be received in vessels containing some strong disinfectant and all hospital refuse be immediately burnt. A vomit or stool pan used by a cholera patient shall on no account be used by any one else. The disinfection of the persons alongwith clothing of attendants on cholera patients should be strictly enforced and they should not be allowed to eat food and drink water which have remained in the vicinity of cholera patients or their dejecta. Any part of an iron soiled by vomit or excreta should be thoroughly scrubbed with a strong disinfectant; clothing, bedding, blankets and straw soiled by any cholera patient should be burnt, earthen floors soiled by patients should be dug up and renewed after disinfection, vide paragraph 1064.
