The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-23

cheap and reliable deodorizer and
antiseptic for privies, cesspools, sew
ers, etc.
Sulphotc Of Zine, in the proportion
of four ounces of sulphate and two
ounces of common salt to the gallon
clothing, bed linen, blankets, etc. 1t
should be used boiling hot, and the
articles to be disinfected plunged into
it and thoroughly boiled.
Corrosive ,SubLiD1dte, in the proper
ton of quarter of an ounce to the
gallon, is an unsurpassed gerLnicide
and disinfectant, but has the disad-
vantage of being excessively poison
Gus and therefore dangerous for gen
eral use.
Cdrbolic Acid, is of uncertain
strength, is expensive, and experience
has shown that it must be employed
be of any use. 1t is also liable, by its
strong odor, to give a false sense OF
security.
HOW TO USE DISINFECTANTS.
L. In the sick room. The most
available agents are fresh air and
cleanliness. The clothing, towels, bed
linen, etc., should, on removal from
the patient, be placed in tub of the
All discharges from the patient should
either be received in vessels contain
ing the copperas or corrosive subli-
mate solution, or if this is impractical
BILE, should be covered with the solu-
ton. Unnecessary furniture, espec-
tally that which is stuffed, carpets,
and hangings, should be removed from
the room at the outset, if possible,
otherwise they should remain for FUN
igation and treatment.
II. Fun1ig0ti0n with sulphur is the
only practicable method of disinfect-
ing the house. For this purpose the
rooms to be disinfected must be vacat-
ed. Heavy clothing, blankets, bed
ding, and other articles which cannot
be treated with the zinc solution,
should be opened and exposed during
fumigation, as directed below: Close
the rooms as tightly as possible, stop
ping up every crevice and keyhole;
place the sulphur in iron pans sup
ported upon bricks placed in washtubs
containing a little water, set it on fire
with alcohol or kerosene sprinkled up
on it, and allow the room to remain
closed twenty-four hours. For q room
ten feet square at least two pounds of
sulphur will be required; for larger
rooms proportiOnately larger quanti-
ties will be necessary.
III. Premises, cellars, yards, stables,
cutters, privies, cesspools, water
closets, sewers, drains, should be liber-
ally treated with the copperas solution;
it is cheap and effective, and may save
your life. The copperas solution may
be easily prepared by hanging basket
containing about sixty pounds of cop
peras in barrel of water.
". Body and bedctOthing. 1t is
best to burn all articles which have
been in contact with persons sick Of
infectious or contagious diseases. Ar
ticles too valuable to be destroyed
should be treated as follows: Cotton,
linen, fdaneLS, blankets, etc., should
be treated with the boiling hot zinc
solution; introduce piece by piece
secure thorough wetting, and boil for
half an hour. FitrS, silks, heGUy tOOoL
en- clothing, 6edcOUerS, and beds,
which cannot be thus treated with the
zinc solution, should be hung in the
room during fumigation, their sur
faces fully exposed and their pockets
turned inside out; afterwards they
should be hung in the open aiT-beat-
en- and shaken. Pillows, beds, stuffed
upholstered furniture, ETC.,
should be cut open, the contents
spread out, and thoroughly fumigated.
Carpets are best fumigated on the
floor, but should afterwards be remov-
ed to the open air and thoroughly
shaken and beaten.
V. COT30SeS should be washed thor
oughly with the zinc or corrosive sub
Innate solution, then wrapped in a
sheet wet with the solution, and buried
at once. Metallic or metal-lined cof-
fins should be used when possible, and
when the body is to be trans
ported for any considerable distance.
If these notes of warning and guides
TO action are needed, and fear does not
usurp the place of common sense, we
have little to dread from cholera per
sonally. 1t is the unthinking multi
bude, the selfish egotist, the ''wait un
til it comes" people, that we have to
fear. "An ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure" and there is
40 disease to which this aphorism SC
aptly aplipes as cholera.
CHOLERA MIXTURE of the British
army. Taken from the Scientific
American receipt book.
Oil of Anise drms.
Oil of Cajeput drms.
Oil of Juniper drms.
Ether drms.
Liquor acid of Haller drm.
Tincture of Cinnamon OF.
Dose ten drops every quarter hour
a tablespoonful of water.
Reception by Miss Gillian.
A pleasant reception was given
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