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How to Disinfect.Clothing which needs disinfecting should be submitted for about three hours to a temperature of 250® in achamber charged with sulphuric funiasfrom a largfc quantity of sulphur. The chamber should be so constructed as to prevent the fumes from passing off. No germs eim stand this.After a room has been used by a person sick with any eontageous disease, it becomes necessary to disinfect it before it is fit to be used again. This is done by removing and burn Ing paner on the walls, removing the bedsteads and other furniture, and exposing them to air and winds and giving them a j fresh coat of Tarnish; by having the mattress made over new and the hair boiled*, by burning in the room three pounds of sulphur, and by whitewashing, painting and papering the roomanew.Now that it is generally conceded that consumption is caused by germs which multiply in the lungs, a method ( of disinfecting them, which shall be ; harmless, has been sought for. but as yet without avail. The vapor of creosote, the oil of the euol.vptus and carbolic acid have been tried, and, to some extent, they may paralyze or stun the germs and prevent their rapid in-j crease; but aa the passage* of the lungs arc delicate, and the v.ipnr cannot ba brought very near to them without injury, the good effects a re slight. But, there is one method which cannot fail to prove beneficial, and that is the inhalation of largo quantities of fresh.pure air. This is worth more than any disinfectant for the lungs, and can do no harm. — Practical Farmer. 1
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Danville Hendricks County Gazette
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 10, 1889
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