APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1119

[Form 4.

NOTIFICATION OF A CASE OF PUERPERAL PYREXIA.*

Name of Hospital: . Address: . Date:

The Medical Officer of Health,........
I HEREBY notify you that , of , a patient at this licensed maternity hospital, is suffering from puerperal pyrexia.
The name of the medical practitioner attending the patient is .
, Licensee or Manager.
Puerperal pyrexia means any febrile condition (other than a condition which is required to be notified as puerperal fever) occurring in a woman within twenty-one days after childbirth or miscarriage in which a temperature of 100·4° F. or more has been sustained during a period of twenty-four hours or has recurred during that period.

[Form 5.

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER OF A PATIENT.

Name of Hospital: . Address: Date:

The Medical Officer of Health,........
I HEREBY notify you that , of , a patient at this hospital, died on [was transferred to on for further treatment].
*, Licensee or Manager.

FIFTH SCHEDULE.
DISINFECTION OF ROOM AND EQUIPMENT SUBSEQUENT TO REMOVAL OF A WOMAN PRESENTING SYMPTOMS OF MORBIDITY.

1. The bedclothes:—
   (a.) Sheets, pillow-slips, and other washable articles, except blankets, shall be steeped in a solution of reliable disinfectant for at least one hour, then washed and boiled.
   (b.) Blankets shall be steeped in a solution of reliable disinfectant for at least one hour, then washed in the ordinary way.
   (c.) By reliable disinfectant is meant a solution of—carbolic acid, 1 to 50; izal, 1 to 100; lysol, 1 to 100: or such other solutions as the Medical Officer of Health may approve.

2. Vessels and utensils: Vessels and utensils shall be sterilized by boiling in water for at least twenty minutes.

3. Mattresses:—
   (a.) Where the ticking is clean and in good repair, the method of surface disinfection of the mattress by formaldehyde or sulphur-dioxide gas, as set out in paragraph 4 below, shall be deemed to be adequate.
   (b.) Where the ticking is soiled or torn the mattress shall not be used unless and until it has been disinfected by exposure to saturated steam in a proper steam disinfector, or has been treated as follows : The contents to be removed and burned, the ticking boiled for at least twenty minutes, and new clean contents provided.

4. The room:—
   (a.) The room shall be fumigated by one or other of the following alternative methods:—
   (i.) The vaporization in a lamp of a type approved by the Medical Officer of Health of not less than thirty paraform tablets for each one thousand cubic feet of enclosed space.
   (ii.) The burning of not less than 3 lb. of sulphur for each one thousand cubic feet of enclosed space.
   (b.) Prior to fumigation the windows, fireplaces, and all apertures save the exit door, shall be sealed up by pasting paper thereover, and all articles left in the room shall be arranged so as to expose them so far as possible to the action of the fumigating agent. The exit door shall in turn be sealed when the fumigator leaves the room after commencing the generation of the gaseous fumigating agent.
   (c.) The period of fumigation shall be not less than twelve hours, and during this period the room shall be left sealed.
   (d.) After the expiry of not less than twelve hours, the room shall be entered and doors and windows shall be opened wide to ventilate thoroughly (air) the room. Mattresses, bolsters, and upholstered articles shall be well exposed to the sun and air. Furniture, pictures, ornaments, painted and varnished woodwork, &c., shall be wiped over with a cloth moistened with warm water to which a reliable disinfectant has been added, special care being taken to remove dust from joints and cracks. Dry dusting shall not be done. Loose coverings on floors, whether carpets or linoleums, shall be removed from the room, and the floor-boards thoroughly scrubbed with soap, soda, or other washing-powder and hot water. The floor coverings before being relaid shall in the case of linoleum be washed on both sides, and in the case of carpets, be well cleaned. If the floor be covered throughout with linoleum it shall be deemed adequate if such linoleum be thoroughly scrubbed with soap, soda, or other washing-powder and hot water, care being taken to lift up and clean where any dust has lodged below the edges of the linoleum.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.