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method necessitates the use of an "autoclave," which
is a sort of digester fitted with a pressure gauge but (at
present) no safety valve. The machine is cumbersome
and heavy, not to say dangerous, and requires to be
closely watched to prevent explosions. If such apparatus
were used, over an hour would be spent in
disinfecting a room, subsequent to the completion of
the sealing up, instead of five or ten minutes as at
present. The use of " paraform " appears to be far more
promising if further experiments confirm the satisfactory
reports already published. The lamp has not been
put on the market in a final form, but the patterns
which have been shown are simple, light, and
(apparently) safe. The penetrating power and diffusibility
of formic aldehyde gas, are said to be much
greater than those of sulphur di-oxide. The new
process will be watched and brought with more detail
before the Vestry should future experience be favourable.
On several occasions it has been necessary to
remove the bodies of persons dying of infectious disease
to the mortuary. There is great need of a mortuary
chapel, which should be of a quasi-ecclesiastical and
attractive appearance, one to which relatives could
not object to remove their dead on the score of repulsiveness.
It is essential to have the infectious dead
removed from tenement dwellings immediately after
death, and this could be done with more freedom from
opposition, if there were a suitable chapel. It is the