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(6) Outer garments of wool or silk, and similar articles, which would 

 be injured by immersion in boiling water or in a disinfecting solution: 



1. Exposure in a suitable apparatus to a current of steam for ten 

 minutes. 



2. Exposure to dry heat at a temperature of 110 degrees C. (230 de- 

 grees F. ) for two hours. 



(c) Mattresses and blankets soiled by the discharges of the sick: 



1. Destruction by fire. 



2. Exposure to superheated steam, 105 degrees C. (221 degrees F.), 

 for ten minutes. (Mattresses to have the cover removed or freely ex- 

 posed.) 



3. Immersion in boiling water for half an hour. 



Furniture and Articles of "Wood, Leather, and Porcelain. 

 Washing, several times repeated with : 



1. Solution of carbolic acid, two per cent. 



For the Person. The hands and general surface of the body of 

 attendants of the sick, and of convalescents, should be washed with: 



1. Solution of chlorinated soda diluted with nine parts of water, 

 1 :10. 



2. Carbolic acid; two per cent solution. 



3. Mercuric chlorid, 1 : 1,000. 



For the Dead. Envelop the body in a sheet thoroughly saturated 

 with : 



1. Chlorid of lime in solution, four per cent. 



2. Mercuric chlorid in solution, 1 : 500. 



3. Carbolic acid in solution, five per cent. 



For the Sick-Room. (a) While occupied, wash all surfaces 

 with: 



1. Mercuric chlorid in solution, 1 : 1,000. 



2. Carbolic acid in solution, two per cent. 



(6) When vacated, fumigate with sulphur dioxid for twelve hours, 

 burning at least three pounds of sulphur for every thousand cubic feet 

 of air space in the room ; then wash all surfaces with one of the above- 

 mentioned disinfecting solutions, and afterward with soap and hot 

 water ; finally throw open doors and windows, and ventilate freely." 



