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OF DESTROYING DISEASE GERMS BEFORE AND 

 AFTER THEY HAVE ENTERED, AND AFTER THEY 

 HAVE LEFT, THE BODY. 



Destruction of Disease Germs after their escape from 

 the Body in Sewage, &c. During many years past, 

 attention has been drawn to this part of the subject 

 by all who see the necessity and who does not ? of 

 sanitary reform. Its importance has been fully recog- 

 nised by the public, and our most distinguished states- 

 men are evidently determined that measures shall be 

 introduced for the purpose of mitigating the terrible 

 evils resulting from the preservation of disease germs 

 in the genial soil of the sewage, and their introduction 

 into our houses, and even into our bed-rooms, and last 

 but not least in importance, for preventing their escape 

 from the sewage into our 'drinking water, whereby 

 their introduction into our organism is insured. 



Probably the only efficient way of destroying the 

 germs escaping from the sick person in his excretions 

 is to mix with them disinfectants before they leave the 

 sick room to be washed into the drains. And, practi- 

 cally, the only thoroughly efficient mode of disinfecting 

 the sewage is by adding the disinfectant in each house, 

 and so effecting the change in the matter before it 

 becomes sewage. Sulphate of iron, chloride of lime, 

 Burnetfs fluid, Condy's flitid, or carbolic acid, may be 

 used for this purpose. Every practitioner should insist 

 upon the importance of this proceeding, and the nurse 



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