Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-07
Rules for Using Disinfectants.


THE following rules for the use of dis
infectants are published by the New York
CITY Board of Health
To disinfect water closets, privies, waste
pipes and all kinds of drains and foul
places in houses stables and yards, and
especially in any drain or sewer that is
liable to become offensive, use a strong
solution of copperas (sulphate of iron)
and carbolic acid. You will make this
solution by mixing eight pounds of dry
copperas and half pint of fluid carbolic
acid in five gallons Of water, and stirring
this mixture briskly.
To keep privies and water closets from
becoming infected or offensive, pour a pint
or more of this solution into every water
closet pan or privy seat, morning and
evening Garbage and garbage tubs should
be daily disinfected with this fluid.
To disinfect masses of filth in privies
sewers or drains, gradually pour in the So
luton, hour by hour, until every part of
the mass or foul surface has been thor
oughly disinfected To every cubic foot
of filth give pint or more OF this strong
solution.
To every privy and water closet allow
at the rate of one pint of this solution, to
be poured daily, at evening, for every four
persons that use the same. This practlce
to be kept up while the hot weather lasts.
To disinfect stables, sewers, cutters, foul
| bitches, filthy ground, Shiny surfaces or
| masses of putrid matter, use the heavy
oil of coal tar, or some one Of the strong
est disinfecting powders that are made
from coal tar. Heavy oil of coal tar, used
with copperas, or used alone, is the most
effectual and the cheapest disinfectant for
this class of nuisances. The inside walls
offoul stables, vaults, cellars, open cutters,
and all such places, can be quickly and
permanently disinfected by occasionally
laying upon <heir surfaces coating OF the
heavy oil" or of the crude coal tar.
Sewers and all foul drains can be kept
perfectly disinfected by pouring into them,
at as many places as possible, small
quantity of the heavy oil,'' a quantity Of
the strongest solution of sulphate or sesqui-
chloride Of iron, mixed with twentieth
part of as much crude carbolic acid, and
we'll stirred.
Wherever it is proper to use powder
that does not dissolve, as upon filthy heaps,
and in larger drains or cess-pools, stables,
cellars and the like, "carbolic or coal tar
powders" are effectual And for use in a
large way, upon filthy masses, and drying,
stagnant or foul pools, powerful disin-
(by measure) of "heavy oil with five
parts of quicklime and ten parts of saw
dust, to use by covering or thickly sprink-
ling the foul places with this mixture.
The following substances also have we'll
known uses, viz:
1. QuicklSme-To absorb moisture and
| putrid fluids, use fresh stone lime finely
| broken; sprinkle it on the place to be dried,
and in damp rooms place a number of
plates or pans filed with the lime powder
whitewash with pure lime, and not with
| kalsomine. r.
q Charcoal Poaoder-To absorb the pu-
trid gases, the coal must be dry and fresh,
and should be combined with. lime; this
compound is the calx powder, as sold in the
| shops.
3. Chloride Of Lime-To give off chic
rine, to destroy putrid effluvia and to stop
putrefaction, use it as lime is used, and il
in cellars or close rooms the chlorine gas
is wanted, pour strong vinegar or diluted
sulphuric acid upon plates OF chloride OF
lime occasionally, and add more to the
chloride.
4. CdrboJic Acid-This may be diluted
dt Iuc Idto VI lIODl lOIby 10 one Hunurou
parts of water to one of the fluid acid
Use this solution for the same purpose as
copperas is used also to sprinkle upon
any kind of garbage or decaying matter
and on foul surfaces of any kind. For
! sprinkling foul or unhealthy streets and
alleys, mix one part of this crude carbolic
acid with four hundred parts Of water OF
copperas water, and sprinkle the entire
surface every four or five days during the
summer and autumn.
All the crude disinfecting substances OF
the coal tar or carbolic class are so often
sive to the smell that they should be used
only moderately in dwelling houses; but
the copperas and carbolic solution can be
used in sufficient quantities without this
| objection, and it should be used by every
family, and especially in all hotels and
clearinghouse.
Let fresh air and sunlight purify every
place they can reach. Open and dry all
cellars and vaults, and keep the grounds
and surfaces about dwellings as dry and
clean as possible. Domestic and personal
cleanliness should be everywhere OBJ
served; and let it be remembered that
there are no substitutes for pure air and
| water