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that the working of the Clayton apparatus is easy
and and rapid, necessitating no disarrangement, presenting no inconvenience. The copper utensils,
resumed slightly tarnished after the operation, their brillancy under the action of a piece of linen
soaked in ammonia.
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Books bound in linen or in blue, red, or green leather, curtains of yellow cloth, were in a damp condition in some of the rooms, none of these objects suffered in anydegree, nor the beding, and the smell had disappeared in the class rooms on the day foll wing the operation, after 14 hours' fumiga- tion by the gas of 8 or 9', and in damp weather.
The isolation rooms of the infirmary contained linen uniforms belonging to the pupils who had suffered from the epidemic of mumps which had attacked the College and rendered the disinfection necessary, they were found to be undamaged.
In short, the disinfection has been a com- plete success from every point of view, viz: rapidity cleanliness, absence of damage, and the rapid dis- appearance of the smell. It has proved the harm- lessness of the Clayton gas in respect of articles of furniture in a dry state.
In spite of a slight smell on the 11th in the evening the pupils were able to sleep in the dormitory, the windows of which could be closed without any inconvenien e fromthat time, under
normal
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