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EXTRACTED FROM SIMPSON'S TREATISE OU PLAGUE, 1905.

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"Tre best fumigation with the best resulta is with the Clayton gas or sulphur-polyoxide. It is

a process of disinfection which will take the place of the older methods. In addition to sulphurous acid every litre of the gas contains 6 2/10 milligrammes or over of Sulphuric anhydride against 1/10 of a milligramme contained in a litre of gas by burning sulphur in the open air under ordinary conditions: it contains other unstable compounds of sulphur and oxygen, the exact nature of which has not been de-

termined. The fumigation attains the object in view, viz: the disinfection of the house and the household

effects, without aving to supplement it with other modes of disinfection, and without having to remove anything from the house. It destroys the infection

of plague on clothes, bedding, floor or any part of

the house that has been contaminated; it destroys the

rats, fleas, bugs, or other insects that may be in

the house, and if the fumigation is extended to the

rat runs and the covered drains, it will destroy any

infection that may be in these. Fumigation by a Clayton apparatus brought to the house simplifies the

work of disinfection, while at the same time the

operation is rendered more certain, more efficient, and safer to the disinfecting establishment. One pound of sulphur is used for every 400 cubic feet of space

to be disinfected.

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