Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-23
nISINFECTANTS.
Remedies FOR stopping the Spread of Contagi-
Gus Diseases
Sc. Louis Republican.

Remedies for stopping the Spread Of Contagi-
Gus Diseases
st Louis Republican.
While looking over the papers in his
desk recently Chief Sanitary Officer c.
W. Francis found list of the best disin-
fectants to be used in preventing the
spread of contagious diseases. The list
was prepared in 1879, during his term as
health commissioner, the yellow fever
raging at the time in the south, with some
scattering cases in the city, and others at
quarantine.
The following is the list, together with
the directions as TO the purpose of the
articles and how they are TO be used
oARBoLIC ACID.
To disinfect vaults, cesspools, drains,
and sewers, garbage and decaying matter,
also bedding and clothing, to be used as
follows: Dilute at the rate of from forty
to one hundred parts of water TO one of
acid. Half pint TO be poured in every
vault. For large masses of filth pour in
solution every hour until every part is
disinfeoted. To disinfect clothing mix
the acid with an equal quantity of strong
vinegar, then dilute as above. For air of
sick-room suspend piece of cloth soak
ed in diluted solution.
cARBoLIc ACID (crude)
To disinfect grounds, drains, or the air
of & foul place, for the sprinkling of
streets, cutters, etc, dilute or thoroughly
agitate the acid in forty to fifty parts of
water and saturate with same.
CHARCOAL POWDER.
To absorb the putrid gases of a damp
or offensive place, sprinkle when dry and
fresh.
CHLORIDE or LIME.
To give of chlorine TO destroy putrid
eifluyia ard to stop putrefaction in eel
lars, vaults. and stables; Use dry and
sprinkle on the floors of apartments, or,
better, use IN solution, and wash the floors
with it, Vinegar poured on 1t increases
its efficiency.
CHLoRINATEp SODA.
Fer disinfecting clothing and cleans
ing the surfaces of corpses; Use one
pint of the solution to two quarts of hot
water.
HEAVY OIL or COAL TAR.
For drains, sewers, foul heaps, etc
Mix with sawdust and spread thickly up
ON the ground or paint the inside walls
with it.
PERMANGAsATE or POTASH.
To be used in disinfecting clothing and
towels, bedding, etc, from patients sick
with infectious diseases: Throw the
clothing to be disinfected into a tub of
water III which one ounce of this disin-
fectant has been dissolved in every three
gallons of water.
QUIoK-LIME.
To absorb moisture and putrid fluids
and free from foul smells Use fresh
stone lime finely broken and sprinkle or
place in plates or pan. or whitowash with
pure lime in damp rooms.
sEsoUr CHLORIDE or IRON
For vaults: Take solution of l30
specific gravity and throw it into vaults,
or, better still, use what is known as
metropolitan disiufecting fluid which is
the solution of the sesqui chloride of
iron mixed with 10 per cent of carbolic
acid.
suLPHuRoUs ACID
EtI tht NlblhlecllDn OF lnfectee apart
ments, carpets, etc, to which boiling heat
can not be applied; The windows and
doors leading out of the infected room To
be closed, then fnmigate with burning
sulphur. The room must remian under
the action from two To six hours. com
mon tenement room will require about
two pounds of sulphur to be burned on a
sheet-iron pan supported by an iron
stand nine inches high.
suLpHATE OF IRON (copperas).
To disinfect the same as carbolic acid
Oae of the best disinfectants is made by
dissolving eight or ten pounds of the sui
phate in five gallons of water, and add
one pint of fluid carbolic acid. Stir or
agitate the mixture briskIy to make n
complete solution. Use in the same man
nsr rs was directed for carboic acid, on
ly pour double the quantity morning and
evening into watercloset pans.
sULPHATR or ZINC
may be used for the same purpose as
permanganate of potassa. Use about
two ounces of the sulphate to one gill of
water.