BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 
Leave Bureau 
and Other 
Drawers Open. 
Removal 
of Odors. 
Reversible 
Rubber 
Sheeting. 
soap and hot water and then washed with the dis¬ 
infectant solution. Bureau and stand drawers 
should be treated in a similar way, and left open 
for fumigation. If floor rugs are used they 
should be wiped off with the solution, and both 
sides exposed to the fumes of formaldehyde or 
other substance just as recommended for mat¬ 
tresses. Then they should be hung up and well 
beaten in the open air, and left there for twenty- 
four 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 carbolic acid 
five per cent (5%) solution, or other good solu¬ 
tion. Wipe dry and hang out in the fresh air 
and sunlight to remove any other odor than that 
of rubber. Sheeting with the rubber preparation 
on either side (reversible), is the best and safest 
in nursing communicable diseases. The disin¬ 
fecting can be more thoroughly accomplished, 
and the sheets look safe. This sheeting makes a 
good covering for all vessels used for evacua¬ 
tions, etc., to be disinfected. 
SUMMARY OF CHAPTER VI. 
Bacteria in surgery. Cases in which they are 
found. 
Sepsis, its cause, the germ found in sepsis. 
Why there should be no cases of sepsis in the 
present age. Why sepsis is so much to be 
dreaded. 
The “everlasting and eternal vigilance” neces¬ 
sary in surgical work and nursing. The dangers 
to be guarded against. What may come of blun¬ 
ders in surgery and in obstetrics. 
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