Hygiene: a manual of personal and public health.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943.
Date:
1902
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    fection is sufficiently effected by open windows. Four chief methods of surface disinfection are practised. {a) Fumigation by SO2, formalin, cresol, or other vapours (see page 326). {b) Spraying the ceiling, walls, floor, and furniture with a disinfectant solution is probably the most convenient method of disinfection. It is more effectual than fumigation, less laborious than rubbing down walls, etc., by,bread or wet cloth, and less likely to damage wall-papers Fig. 58. Equifex Spray Disinfector in use. than brushing a disinfectant solution on them. Solutions of HgClg I in!i,ooo, or» chinosol i in-^i,2oo, or formalin i in 40 are efficient. A special spray'apparatus (Fig. 58) is usually employed. A practical point is to spray the wall from below upwards, to prevent the solution running down the wall and producing streaks of discolouration. {c) Washing ceiling and walls with the disinfectant solution may be substituted. A one per cent, solution of hypochlorite of lime is largely used for this purpose, applied by a long-handled