ON DEODOR IZATION AND DISINFECTION. 
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To prevent the communication of infectious disease. — Sprinkle 
the dilute solution over the whole of the floor of the apartment, 
and very slightly on the coverlid of the patient’s bed. The clothes 
used should be immersed in the solution, and afterwards thoroughly 
dried. Moisten pieces of flannel cloth, and use them as directed 
above. 
To purify the odour of night-chairs. — Put half-a-pint of the 
dilute solution into the pan previous to its use, and when emptied, 
rinse it out with a small quantity. 
To disinfect dead bodies , and purify apartments preparatory to 
the visits of searchers , undertakers , and jurymen , and in cases of 
post-mortem examination. — Wash the body occasionally with the 
dilute solution, which will remove all unpleasant smell, and retard 
putrefaction. 
To prepare , and arrest the decomposition of subjects for dis- 
section. — Immerse the subject in the dilute solution, and let it 
remain about two hours ; after which time it will be purified. As 
the dissection proceeds, the parts should be sponged over with the 
same ; and, if they are to be preserved, the bloodvessels should 
also be injected with the solution. 
ONE PART FLUID TO TWENTY PARTS WATER. 
To disinfect cess-pools, drams , water-closets, fyc. — Pour in a 
quantity of the solution in proportion to the capacity of the recep- 
tacle. For ordinary water-closets, one gallon of the dilute solution 
will generally be effectual. For large cess-pools the quantity must 
be increased in proportion to their contents. 
To purify stables. — Sprinkle the floor, and wash all the wood- 
work with the dilute solution. 
To sweeten musty casks, tubs, fyc . — Rinse them well with the 
dilute solution. 
To destroy canker and fungus in trees. — Apply the solution 
carefully with a brush to the parts affected only. 
To extirpate bugs and other vermin. — Wash the floors and all 
the crevices with the dilute solution. The joints, &c. of the bed- 
steads should be moistened by a brush with a solution consisting of 
one part of fluid to five parts of water. 
To purify bilge-water and the holds of ships. — The quantity to 
be used at a time is twenty gallons of the dilute solution for each 
hundred tons of the ship’s measurement. It should be poured into 
the air-holes of the ship, so that it may find its way by the limber- 
holes into the well; and it should be thrown by a small engine into 
places where it may be inconvenient to introduce it by other 
means. A portion may also be poured down the ship’s pumps, the 
boxes being previously removed to allow of its free passage below. 
The solution should be allowed to remain in the ship twenty-four 
