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of carbolic acid, lysol, or sulphate of copper, or one 

 part of corrosive sublimate to 1000 of water. For 

 the disinfection of cholera excreta, milk of lime is to 

 be recommended (see page 59), or a five-per-cent. 

 solution of carbolic acid or lysol, or a two-per-cent. 

 solution of chloride of lime, or boiling water. 



Sanitarians no longer have any great apprehension 

 with reference to the extension of this Asiatic plague 

 in European countries or in America The measures 

 for its prevention are simple and easily applied, and 

 it is only in localities where ignorance or prejudice 

 stands in the way of the execution of these means that 

 the deadly spirillum is likely to establish itself in 

 civilised countries. The measures referred to may 

 be summed up briefly as follows : Isolation of the 

 sick, including all cases of choleraic diarrhoea ; disin- 

 fection of excreta ; sanitary police of infected locali- 

 ties ; boiling of drinking water ; exclusion of flies 

 from dwellings, and especially from kitchens. 



The last-mentioned sanitary precaution is perhaps 

 the most difficult of execution. But, fortunately, it 

 is not essential when the measures previously men- 

 tioned have been carried out, especially the disinfec- 

 tion of excreta. Indeed all other measures might be 

 neglected as superfluous if we could be assured of 

 the complete destruction of all cholera germs in the 

 excreta of infected individuals. And if this could be 



