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until the arrival of the first case

of

choler a

a

the colony.

2.

of all

agents for disinfecting

" polluted earth

and latrines when cholera

is about

the

in the

acid

I have most faith in salts of vion, particularby

salts of iron for practical use large scale.

on

a

They would

would of Course

not lend themselves to

ude

in

system where disinfection by livie was employed. but I would dispense with line for such purpose if I could

in the needful

obtain acid cron salto

abundance..

All disinfectants must of

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3. Looking

to the prodigious danger

of cholera. polluted water supplies and

the possibility that supplies under

move

or less suspicion of such pollution

may

places be the only

ones

available for drinking, would it

not be well

with the

drink,

cholera

to familiarize people

notion of avoiding

all "water"

sea-zonx

in which beverage

of necessity

20

a

whatever during

substituting

the

been boiled.

GB.

Nov. 10. 85.

"tea"

water has

Course

be actually

the

On

spot

ad

Joon

a

cholera

oc curs

the

disease will not wait for their

arrwal before it opreads epidemically.

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