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Is that there, Dr Clark ? We were under an impression that it was used for general cleansing, and it was substituted for the general disinfection.

It was not wholly substituted, because we were buying at the same time over 3,000 dollars worth of Jeyes Fluid. At the time we were buying a large quantity of Carbolosene this dates at the time when we started the house to house cleansing of the whole Colony, apart from the disinfection of infected houses, and it's analysis rendered it more valuable as a cleanser, than Jeyes Fluid. The idea is to remove food for rats, and to remove filth which harbours vermin.

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And also incidentally to kill germs.

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That is not so, because the plague germ outside the human body do not remain alive for above a week.

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sum of money in cleansing and disinfection ?

It contains a large quantity of carbolic acid, as you k now.

I think you said as a germicide it would not be so good

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That would be a matter for the bacteriologist to decide. That is a question of culture, which the analyst

has never included. It is only since we have had a bacter.ologist that we have been able to decide germicidTM al values. Before that, we merely had chemical formulae and reports. Of course, you will understand that we, more

or less, were experimenting in the use of disinfecting oleons rs, and things of that sort.

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