The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-02
BOOKS TO BE pIsINFDCrED.
Disease Germs 70 be Summa-!ly Disposed
of in New York Library.

| of In New York Library.
| New York. Jan. The Herald says:
! Woe 10 the disease germ that creeps INTO
book belonging % the great library
which New York is short ylto have. Once
/ the borrower returns the volume 20 the
7 librarians desk the obnoxious bacillus
moments are numbered
/ or all the novel features which have
] been decided upon IN preparing the rules
I OF management OF this rnosnihcen; insti-
/ tuition one OF the most striking and i'm
/ por;ant is that of book disinfecting. For
the last few years n has been repeatedly
1 pdnted out by physicians and various
/ boards of health that the leaning OF
books by circulating Libraries has proved
a fruitful field for The spread of contagi-
/ Gus diseases
Families in whose midst are persons
| suffering from measles. scarlatina or
any ~ he many forms OF contagious dis
eases are often too prone 10 fiy 20 the
! circulating libraries in order 70 borrow
hooks 20 amuse the sick patient The
microbes and bacEli from ;hc sick per
son find a place between the pages Of
the books and can live there FOR years
only making their dread presence known
when some unfortunate individual. ali
: innOceutly eviDces the desire "a peruse
these self-s1me pages and. quite uncon-
scious whence he or she contracted the
complaint. IS stricken down with ths
came disease
| Attention has been called 20 this mat
I ter 50 repeatedly ma; many % the boards
I % health ~ the different states have
Z q 4. -
/ latures - make 8; a criminal ofress for
! persons coming in contact with contag
/ ious diseases 10 borrow books from cir
I cuiatng libraries But The ac; Ia done
often 80 unwit,inzly that some othes
mans seems Eeoa ssary in order 20 cors-
| bat the evil.
BE his as 70 may. future borrowers
from New Yo-if's graz library can rest
assured on this head. FOR the trus.ees
| havs already formulated plan BY whics
means every book that leaves The library
shelves VIII be cubmifted on iis return
20 a process y sterilization and dlsinfec-
ton that xiii free = from all disease
bearing gpyers. Many months ago.
when the idea % the consultation Ss
the free Libraries was yet In is infancy.
Messrs. Cadwal,asie-. Kennedy and Rive
commissioned Or. john 8 Billings. IN.
fu-ure director % the library. 20 make
experiments wl.h a view 20 determining
how such process could best - carried
out. and ii r. the result 81 Or. Billings
iinyes-lgationa ;hst all prevail when
the new library - opened
The agent that Dt. Billings win employ
n ths aB5s.anoe termed formalin. con-
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IS making many interesting discoveries.
m. me least q faen being lss Efficient
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porlze. and gae va2er pozsens ng az the
an..sep.lc powerr - the nudszfa ancs itself.
ulI utterly destroy All pat5ox-uLs Or
gauisErs.
n actual practice each book a. u IL re-
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