|
!
:
124
452
"In a modern city, composed of well-constructed houses, one can readily understa d that these machines can and do perform their work satisfactorily, due to the fact that the rooms can be rendered approximately air-tight, but in the ordinary lower class Indian dwellings such a necessary condition is impossible of attainment, and in Indian villages the great majority of the houses have walls made of bamboo laths and mud or of kerosine oil tins. Moreover, rat-runs or burrows abound and to make such a dwelling rat-proof prior to disinfection is obviously hopeless.
"Experiments recently carried out at the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory would appear to show that rats can readily be killed with Clayton gas, when they are confined in an open room, but, if they are allowed to move about freely, some may escape before the concentration of the gas becomes strong enough to overcome them; moreover, certain types of burrows may afford shelter to the rats and thus they escape destruction.
"In the Presidency towns and many cities of India
where numerous well-constructed modern houses exist
this method of disinfection can readily be carried out"
TUR"""R(J. A.)Sanitation in India, 1914. Bombay. The Times of India. pp.705-706; 708-709; 709-710-
1