What is the best way of disinfecting plague houses?
Our routine method of disinfect tion during this epidemic is to fumigate the houses with moist sulphur gas by burning the crude sulphur in a cheap earthenware pot after the walls and floor have been sprayed with water. The floor containing the sputum is covered with slaked lime. Our doctors' clothes and overalls are fumigated with formalin gas made from 100 grams of permanganate of potash, 100 grams of hot water and 200 grams of formalin warmed in a pot.
Besides the above, other investigations have been made, such as forty post mortem findings, clinical examinations, ete., but these will be embodied in a full report later on. In the meantime I wish to record my high appreciation of the services of my colleagues, particularly Drs. J. W. H. Chun and Pollitzer, who besides cheerfully sharing with mo the dangers and anxieties incidental to the management of an epidemic of such magnitude, have suggested and carried out many of the experiments—related above. Although the remedy for pneumonia plague is not yet found we are satisfied that our joint work has contributed much to the scientific knowledge of this most terrible of all known diseases,
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