terilized for one hour in every twenty-four hours.

Bed Pans and Urinals.--These should be washed out thoroughly. Allow
boiling hot water to run on them for some time before they are put away
after being cleansed.

Soiled Dressing and Linen.--These should be received in covered basins or
in paper bags and at once carried away and destroyed or disinfected, or
put in a metal dressing can and closely covered until the contents can be
cared for at the earliest possible time. Vomited matter or the discharges
from the bowels and the urine should always be covered in the vessel
either with a lid, towel or rubber cloth. The rubber is better than the
cloth as it keeps in the odor and can be scrubbed and disinfected.

If the patient is too sick to use a sputum cup, the expectoration can be
received in a paper handkerchief or a piece of cheese cloth and placed in
a small paper bag and burned at once.

SOILED AND STAINED LINEN.--These should be put away in a covered
receptacle that contains enough disinfectant solution to keep them moist.
They are removed as soon as possible to the wash room to be cleaned and
sterilized.

Sterilization.--This term is usually employed when heat is used to
sterilize.

Disinfection.--This is the term used when chemicals are relied upon to
purify (sterilize).

Heat and Chemicals are much aided by sunshine, light and fresh air,
especially that of high dry climates.

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The germs (bacteria) are destroyed by dry or moist heat, the latter used
in the form of steam. Dry heat is not so penetrating and requires a longer
time and some goods are destroyed when exposed in it long enough to
destroy the germs.

In order to destroy these organisms it is thought to be necessary to
expose whatever is to be sterilized to the steam at 200 degrees F. for
three successive days for thirty minutes or more each day, and during the
interval to keep them in a room with a temperature of 60 degrees F.

A SIMPLE METHOD OF STERILIZING.--Put the articles (small articles) in an
ordinary kitchen steamer; closely cover it and place it over a pot of
boiling water. If you wish you can add two parts of carbonate of sodium to
each ninety-eight parts of water.

Germicides are chemicals used to destroy germs.

Disinfectants are chemicals used to arrest and prevent their development.
These disinfectants should always be fresh.

Carbolic acid is one of the most efficient and most frequently employe