Sanitary and preventive measuresDunlap Print. Company, 1892 - 8 pages |
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Page 7 - ... set it on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed for twenty-four hours.
Page 8 - Dissolve chloride of lime of the best quality * in soft water, in the proportion of four ounces to the gallon. Use one pint of this solution for the disinfection of each discharge in cholera, typhoid fever, etc. Mix well and leave in vessel for at least ten minutes before throwing into privy-vault or water-closet.
Page 6 - They may be employed in cellars, yards, privies, vaults, sinks, water-closets, sick rooms, bed-pans, stables, and in other places about your premises, or wherever practicable, when there are offensive odors emitted. DISINFECTANTS AND HOW TO USE THEM. Quick-lime. — This may be employed as a purifier, to act as a dryer in damp apartments, and upon moist and hurtful effluvia.
Page 6 - ... ordered whole ship-loads of peat charcoal, which they used in the progress of their work of purification in the hospitals, barracks, or camps in the East. A report of that Commission states, that " perhaps the best deodorizing compound was one used by the inspectors in all their works. It consisted of one part of peat charcoal, one part of quicklime, and four parts of sand or gravel.
Page 8 - STANDARD SOLUTION No. 4. — Dissolve corrosive sublimate in water* in the proportion of four ounces to the gallon, and add one drachm of permanganate of potash to each gallon to give color to the solution.
Page 6 - ... be strewn as dry lime on the earth, or placed upon plates, or, better still, in the shape of whitewash upon the walls. In the latter form, the addition of a small quantity of carbolic acid adds to its efficiency. Charcoal is a powerful oxidizing agent. It may be used as a deodorant and purifier. " The sole condition necessary is the free access of atmospheric air, which the charcoal uses in oxidizing the putrid miasms.