An Outbreak of Typhus Fever in Peshawar
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that besides taking the usual precautions of isolating the sick and contacts and disinfecting the hospital ward, all the bed bugs should be killed. The iron cots were accordingly stacked in heaps and were surrounded with the dry leaves of sugar-cane, and the leaves set on fire. An intense heat of short duration was obtained and all the bed bugs effectually burnt without any damage to the beds. The floor of the hospital was then covered with a layer of sugar-cane leaves; these were ignited and any bed bugs that had dropped on the floor and were lurking in cracks between the bricks were killed. The typhus cases and their attendants were provided with clean clothing and bedding and the sick
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