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Credit: The Bubonic Plague / by A. Mitra. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![windows should be opened and kept open for 24 or 36 hours. Rooms may be disnifected by chlorine. Carbolic acid in 5 per cent, solution is useful for all ordinary purposes, such as washing hands, utensils, &c. Quicklime is the cheapest and the most easily ])rocurable disinfectant for drains and for disinfec- tion of discharges. Carbolic powder made by add- ins- carbolic acid to lime is very useful for the disinfection of public latrines, drains and sewers. Corrosive sublimate, in the proportion of 1 part in 4,000, is the most efficient germicide known and should be used diluted with water for sprink- ling on public roads and for flushing drains and washing latrines, &c. It is, however, poisonous and corrodes metal drain pipes. In quarantine or isola- tion camp the latrines should be of the dry earth system. Carbolic acid powder should be largely used in them. The question of suitable disposal of sewage dej)ends on the circumstances of each town or village, but incineration is the most sanitary method during an epidemic. Other disinfectants too, such as Jey’s Fluid, Creoline, Phenyle, Izal, Sanitas, may also be used.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21695271_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
