BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Outdoor Air 

 in Disinfection. 



Exposure 

 from all Sides. 



Leave Bureau 

 and Other 

 Drawers Open. 



Removal 

 of Odors. 



sufficient length of time to do good work. 

 When there is no apparatus for the steaming 

 process, wash the surfaces of pillows and 

 mattresses with the disinfectant solution, turn 

 over the foot-boards of the beds in rooms or 

 wards to be fumigated, so that the substance 

 used for furtiigation may reach them from all 

 sides. To complete the process, put them out 

 in the fresh air and sunshine for twenty-four 

 to forty-eight hours. Mattresses stained with 

 typhoid fever defecations would better be 

 burned. 



Beds, windows, walls, floors, woodwork and 

 all pieces of furniture first must be cleansed 

 with brush, soap and hot water and then washed 

 with the disinfectant solution. Bureau and 

 stand drawers, closets and closet shelves should 

 be treated in a similar way, and left open for 

 fumigation. The thorough cleansing with soap 

 and water must be again repeated after fumiga- 

 tion. If floor rugs are used they should be 

 washed off with the solution, and both sides, 

 exposed to the fumes of formaldehyde or other 

 substance just as recommended for mattresses. 

 Then they should be hung up and well beaten 

 in the open air, and left there for twenty-four 

 to forty-eight hours also. 



To Disinfect Rubber Sheets: — First, 

 wash clean in hot water with soap and brush, 

 rinse in clear water and soak one hour in 

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