The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17
THE NEW CORPORATION
The New Morristown Company is
Making Considerable Progress and
is Planning for the Future.


Making Considerable Progress and
Is Planning for the Future.
During last December group Of
Morristown business and professional
men organized new company to
place on the market Clinical Their
mometer Shield This shield is the
invention of well known Morristown
physician and the idea is very practi-
cal one that is receiving very favorable
comment throughout the country.
The Cleanshield Corporation is now
composed Of about twelve stockholders
all OF whom are engaged in business in
Morristown. The officers are DR..
Harry Vaughan, President; Charles
r. Whitehead, president; Fred
|erick S. Smith, treasurer David Bark
man, counsel, and Kelsey Burr Gould,
secretary and general manager.
Most people do not realize it, but
strange as it may seem the small ther-
mometer that is of such valuable as
sistance to the physician in his work
may become when unprotected a little
instrument that will carry disease
germs from the mouth OF one patient
to another. Millions of disease germs
reside in the mouth of the sick and if
every surgeons instruments should be
carefully sterilized each time before
they are used in an operation, how
careful the physician should be before
transmitting his thermometer from
mouth to mouth. That the ordinary
washing in water is worse than useless
every physician must admit, as it
gives sense of safety not at all iusti-
fed because the ordinary washing will
not in any sense remove the germs
from the thermometer. If sterilized
in hot water the thermometer will
break. The most feasible way, there
fore, to keep a clean and aScetic
thermometer is by the use of a shield
used once for each individual patient
and then Immediately thrown away.
The Cleanshield Corporation owns the
patent for a device Of this kind.
The shields are made Of fine elastic
tissue impervious to moisture, thor
oughly aseptic and so thin as to be al
most transparent. This little cover is
simply rolled over the thermometer,
the temperature taken and it IS then
rolled off and destroyed.
Letters from physicians in different
parts of the country and comments
from the general public Indicate that
the shield is filling a long felt need.
One physician from the middle west
writes that, "It has solved problem
that that had had been been ing me fer ten
years" and in a later letter after using
the shield for a few months said
always disliked the use of ther-
mometer because it is SO utterly inn
possible to keep one clean, patients
also many Of them almost rebel against
their use because they do not know
where they may have been before
getting to them"
Considerable progress has been made
by the new company in putting these
shields on the market. Starting in a
small Office the first of the year the
company by actual experiment found
that there was large demand for the
goods and thereupon purchased from a
large rubber house the secret formula
for making the shields. During the
last month they have taken larger
offices in the front of the Babbitt
building, and are making the shields in
Morristown and sending them to all
parts of the country. The public in
general are invited to call at the office
of the company at any time and re-
ceive a sample of the shields and have
their use explained to them. The COM
pany is now planning to give an exhi-
bition Of the use of their shields at the
National Convention Of the American
Medical Association to be held at At
lantic City the first week in June.
The general manager, Mr.. Gould goes
to Atlantic City to take charge Of this
exhibition.