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.
[Illustration: [Fleuron]]