Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-03

The principles relating to disinfec-
tion as q means of destroying the prop
agating or infectious cause of cholera
tho "cholera contagium - are
readily understood, and be so explained
to any family that the household may
insure it's own immunity against the
introduction and spread of the disease.
For popular use we append brief
statement of these principles at the
end of this circular, and We respect.
fully recommend that the statement
and the following schedule of rules
and methods be given to the Press and
to all principals of schools, supcrin.
tendents of places of public resort,
railroad depots, ferries, hotels and
public institutions, and to the masters
of ships and steamboats,, and the con.
ductors of passenger trains throughout
this continent, believing, rs we do,
that by the timely application of these
measures the prevalence of cholera
may be prevented.
RULES AND METHODS OF DIs1NFEc1oN.
For privies. water.closets, drains,
and sewers-Eight or ten pounds of
sulphate Of iron (copperas) dissolved
in five or six gallons of water, with
half q pint of crude carbolic acid
added to the solution, and briskly
stirred, makes the cheapest and best
disinfccting fluid for common use. It
can be procured in every town and by
any family, and if the carbolic acid is
not at hand, the solution of copperas
may be used without it.
10 prevent privies and water-closets
from becoming infected or offensive
Pour pint of this strong solution into
every water-closet pan or privy seat
once or twice day.
TO disinfect masses of filth, privy-
vaults, sewers, and drains-Gradually
pour in this solution, until it reaches
and disinfects all the foul material.
For the chamber-vessels used by the
sick, and for the disinfection of gronnd
upon which any excremental matter
has been cast away, for disinfecting
extensive masses or surfaces of putres
cent materials, and for drains, sewers,
and bitches, the "iead oil " Of coal
tar. or coal tar itself, is available;
coal tar may be used as disinfecting
paint upon the wallis of cellars, stables,
and open drains.
Ouicklime is useful as an absorbent
and dryer upon such walls and in damp
places, and white-waslling with it
should be practiced in common tene-
ments, factories, Easements, closets,
and garrets.
To disinfect the clothing defiled in
any manner by excremental matters
from the sick, throw oil such articles
Immediately into boiling water and
continue the boiling for half an hour
or place them in solution, covered,
made as follows: One pound of sui.
phate of zinc, six or eight gallons of
water, to which add two or three
ounces of pure, strong carbolic acid.
Keep the soiled articles saturated
until they can be boiled. II The acid
is not at hand, use the zinc water alone.
Apartments, bedding and upholstery
that have been used by the sick with
cholera or diarrhma, should be fumi.
gated by the burning of several pounds
of birthstone (sulphur) upon a de-
Tended iron pan, with the place tightly
closed. for several hours, under phys
lcian's directions.
PRINCIPLES AND DUTIES TO DE TAUGHT.
l. That thorough cleanliness, do
nestle and civic, and an abundant
supply of pure water are essential
means of preventing cholera i'll any
household when the disease is near.
g. That general cleansing, scaveDg-
ing, aud d,sinfection should I've attend
ell to in every city and town before
cholera makes its appearance; and
that wherever it does appear, that
house and the expos;d premises
should 10 kept constantly disinfected.
3. That in the words of the Chief
Medical Officer Of Great Britain, I" 1t
appears to bo characteristic of cholera,
not only of the disease in its developed
"nd alarming form, but equally Of the
slightest tlinrrl,Da which the epidemic
can produce, TINT all matters which
the patient discharges from his stom
acll and bowels are infective; TINT thu
PATIENTS power of injecting from Other
persons is represented almost or quite
} exclusively by those discharges; thai
; they are comparatively non .nfectivc Al
the moment they are discharged, bu
afterwnrl, when undergoing decompo
sition, acquire their maximum lnfectiv'