CHAPTER VI.. Prevention of Contagious or Infectious Diseases.

Prevention of Contagious or Infectious Diseases.

Many of our customers sell large quantities of the Preservative to disinfect sick-rooms. If sprayed around the rooms it will purify and deodorize them in five minutes, thereby arresting contagion. The best way to deodorize a room or the house, is to suspend a good-sized sponge saturated with the Preservative, in each room, with a plate underneath to catch the drip, and when dry saturate again from the plate.

A little of the Preservative should be poured into the chamber utensils, and it should also be sprinkled or sprayed on articles coming into contact with the infectious matter, also on the clothing of those attending the sick before leaving the sick-room, in order to avoid carrying the infection outside.

Whenever the Preservative is used freely in sick-rooms or throughout the house, where there is a case of scarlet fever or diphtheria, there will be no further spread of those diseases in the family. In this respect the Preservative is invaluable, and the Undertaker who wishes to push its sale on the merits of its value as a disinfectant for sick-rooms, will find it called for in time by nearly every family in his community.

The Preservative has been successfully used in epidemics of scarlet fever in many instances in the past, preventing its further spread whenever it has been freely and faithfully applied; and although I have no personal knowledge of its application as a disinfectant and preventative in yellow fever epidemics, I have no doubt whatever of its great usefulness in confining that dread disease in narrow limits, knowing from actual experience its effectiveness in neutralizing and destroying septic matter and all germs of contagion of every nature and kind.