The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-16
TO BUY A DISINFECTOR.
Dr.. Drummer Estimates the Cost Of the
Apparatus at $4,000.

1t Will Save Money, Though, If 1t
Works Successfully and Prevents
the Destroying Of Infected Goods.
What the Apparatus Is Like.
Health Officer Drummer will shortly
submit to the city council figures show
ing the cost and the dimensions of the
portable disinfecting apparatus. AS soon
as he can gee his estimates ready he will
submit them to the health and cemetery
committee, which viii report upon them.
1t is understood that the cost of the neces-
sary apparatus will be between s., 600 and
s., 600
Two years ago, when DR.. Drummer first
urged the purchase of the porta BILE steam
disinfecting apparatus, he secured figures
and drawings, showing the cost and
character of the machine desired. The
council would have done well to have
needed his request then. 1t has since de-
stroyed infected goods amounting in value
to several times the cost of the machine
and in fact has probably paid out as
much as the cost of the machine in partial
remuneration for articles destroyed.
A COMPARATIVELY NEW THING.
1Oul lew CLUES. even Vi GIlb
larger class, were then using the portable
steam disinfecting plants, though the ma
iOrity Of the larger cities had stationary
plants. DR.. Drummer found a portable
machine in Milwaukee at that time
which seemed to be giving satisfaction,
and that only cost the city 5000, He was
not exactly satisfied, however, with the
degree of heat attained by it. The Mil
waukee officials put him in communica-
ton with the manufacturers. McEaugh-
lin < Co, of Boston, and he found that
he could obtain exactly what he wanted
for something less than $1,000.
There have been impro vements in these
machines since that time, however.
Passed Assistant Surgeon ]. J. Kinyon,
of the marine hospital service, has in
vented q porta BILE disinfecting plant which
has received the approval of the ser vice,
and which is said by medical Sexperts, to
be the best thing OF the kind yet invented.
II is this machine which DR.. Drummer de-
sIres to secure for Savannah.
WHAT THE APPARATUS Is.
There is no patent upon it, the physi-
clans of the marine hospital service not
being allowed to patent their inventions.
so that il can be obtained for the actual
cost of its manufacture. The machine is
mounted upon four wheels, and consists
of boiler with steam pipes leading to
dlSlnTecung chambers. A temperature
of 230 TO 240 degrees Fahrenheit can be
generated, either moist or dry. The
chamber is large enough to receive a
large sized mattress. There are also
receptacles in which to place smaller and
more delicate articles which it is de-
sired to protect from damage as far as
possible.
Health Officer Drummer is satisfied that
this is just the machine that Savannah
wants, and he will recommend it TO the
committee. A stationary disinfecting APP
paratus could be erected outside the city
at less cost, but this would involve the
necessity of carting disinfected arti-
cles through the streets, which it
is desired to avoid. With the
portable apparatus the machine can be
moved from door to door and infected
goods disinfected in front of the door or
in the back yard of the house to which
they belonged As it would not be re-
duired 10 use the machine more than
twenty or thirty times a wear, the city
would not be put TO any great expense
for labor or hire of horses In case OF an
epidemic Of any kind such a machine
would prove invaluable