- In the case of small-pox the patient should be isolated and treated in a separate ward or camp in a remote part of the Jail grounds. The contacts should be isolated for fifteen days and vaccinated. The Medical Officers will also take steps to vaccinate all the staff and prisoners who have not recently been vaccinated.The clothing and personal effects of small-pox patients should be thoroughly washed in a strong disinfectant and thereafter disinfected in a high pressure steam disinfector.The barrack in which a case of small-pox has occurred should be vacated at once, the floor and berths washed with a disinfectant and the walls whitewashed and the doors and windows left open for a week when it may, if necessary, be re-occupied.
