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to be destroyed is not that in the air of the room, but
that clinging as dust and dirt to the surface and recesses
of walls, floor, ceiling, and furniture, the use of these
gaseous disinfectants may, with advantage, be replaced
by the spraying upon the surfaces to be disinfected of a
liquid disinfectant such as one or other of the solutions
mentioned in the note to paragraph (a).
(d) After measures of disinfecting a room have been taken,
the wall paper (especially if soiled, torn or loose) should
be stripped from the walls and be burned, anil the room
should have its ceilings and walls thoroughly washed or
lime-whited. The floor and woodwork should also be
well washed with soap and water.
20. For detailed information on disinfection by heat, on hospital
accommodation, on Small pox, and on questions of school administration
during the prevalence of infectious disease, see the Office Memoranda
and Reports on these subjects.
W. H. POWER,
Medical Officer.
Local Government Board,
Medical Department,
September, 1900.
Directions for Obtaining and Forwarding for Bacterioscopic
Examination Material from Suspected
Plague Cases.
[The Local Government Board, with a view to assisting in the identification
of Plague newly developing in one and another district, have arranged
for Bacteriological testing, without cost to the Local Authority, of material
from the earliest suspected case or cases in the district. This material
can he received only from the Medical Officer of Health.]