The daily gazette., 1879-07-26
diNnfectant, and all openings to the
room should be closed.

room should be closed.
To generate Chlorine, take peroxide
Of manganese ito be obtained az any
drug storey place In An enrthen dish aud
add one pound Of hydrochlorio acid
(somet mes called fpuriattc acid to each
four ounces of the peroxide OF mangan-
@. Care should be taken not TO inhale
the gas. After being certain that con
tinuOus evolution OF chlorine has been
secured, leave the room and close the
door Of exit
The bleaching properties Of chlorine
may destroy the color Of colored goods
exposed to 1t, but as q dIsinfectant It Is
one Of the best. .-....
To gensra.e sulphurous acid gas, put
1--we Goals On top of ashes IN METAL G pan
and place on the cOals sulphur in pow
der Or fragments.
A convenient way Is to place the Goals
and sulphur on a heated stove plate or
cover turned bottom upward 10 a pan
half filed with ashes. To disinfect 100
cubic feet OF air requires the thorough
combustion of about one and one half
oun .es ofsulphur. lit 4'. .l.L.
+ Rooms should be kept closed and sub.
jected to the "A ton of the disi nfec,ing gas
for six or eight hours, and afterwards
tnSr1nssly u; ;n%ogs aired by opening doors and
Heat an q disinfectant.-It is believed
that heat sufficient to be cisinfectant for
this disease may b secured without des-
trOying ordinary articles of clothing, say
at 240 degrees to $50 degrees Farenheit.
In cities aud villages it may be prach-
cable for the local boards Of health to
provide central disinfecting oven or
room where a large amount Of material
may be carried, In closed conveyance,
II ON houses where the disease has pre-
vailed, and, after disinfectiOn by heat
under the direction Of some comp, tent
officer OF the 10 ,rd, returned in another
,nveyance to the owners. For certain
articles, this may well supplement the
gaseous disinfectiOn at private houses,
which cannot in every case he conven
iently ami thoroughly applied to all arti-
cles.
Whenever case of this disease occurs
in locality, prompt and vigorous action
should br taken for the restriction of the
disease, by early isolation of those sick
with the disease, and by the destructl lon
or disinfectiOn of all articles likely to be
infected.
Plain and distinct notices should be-
placed upon the premises or house IN
which there il u person sick with scar let
fever, and no child that has had the dis
ease should be allowed TO enter, or to
associate with persons who do enter
such house or room.
All cloth ng, carpets, curtains, furni
ture, and other substances that are to be
destroyed should be dealt with In way
to avoid conveying the poison to any
person In the process; they should not
be simply thrown away, or into some
stream or body of water; and if burned
should be completely burned and not
.imply heated or dealt with In way to
diffuse the poison of the disease.
All such infected substances which are
not destroyed, should be thoroughly boil
ed, subjected to dry heat Of 25O' r. in
q closed room or disinfecting Oven,or be-
thoroughly exposed to fumes of ch ioriue
or Of bur ming sull hur. B ,oks and furs that
have been used or handled BY those con-
valescing from this disease are particu-
children who have never had the dis
ease. Great care should be used to
thoroughly disinfect such articles that
are not destroyed; and caution should be
exercised before allowing children who
have not had Scarlet Fever to handle
any such articles that have been used by
orsOns liable to communicate the dis
ease.
Fresh 'r.-Although 80 not active for
the destruction OF the contagum IN is
chlorine or sulphurous acid gas, pure
air, In liberal amount, Is a very useful
and important agent for the dilution and
destruction of the poison of the disease;
1t should be employed freely; but with
this as with other procedures for the
safety Ofthe unaffected, great care should
be taken not to increase the danger to
those already sick from any oause, who
are usually endangered by exposure to
drafts of cold air, and this is especially
true OF persons convalescing from Scar
let Fever.