Practical preventive medicine . Pig. 9.—For purpose of fumigation all cracks around doors and windows exceptthe door of exit should be sealed with adhesive paper. Sulphur dioxid is most commonly and conveniently generatedby the burning of sulphur. Ordinary stick sulphur is crushedto fineness and the required amount is placed in a conical pile ina shallow cast iron pot or jar, which is supported on bricksin a tub containing 1 to 2 inches of water (Fig. 8). A small 102 PRACTICAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE conical depression is made in the top of the pile and in this isplaced a small ball of waste satur
Practical preventive medicine . Pig. 9.—For purpose of fumigation all cracks around doors and windows exceptthe door of exit should be sealed with adhesive paper. Sulphur dioxid is most commonly and conveniently generatedby the burning of sulphur. Ordinary stick sulphur is crushedto fineness and the required amount is placed in a conical pile ina shallow cast iron pot or jar, which is supported on bricksin a tub containing 1 to 2 inches of water (Fig. 8). A small 102 PRACTICAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE conical depression is made in the top of the pile and in this isplaced a small ball of waste saturated with alcohol. Thealcohol is ignited and its burning is sufficient to ignite the sul-phur. It is important that the pots employed be shallow. {c) Preparation oj Quarters jor Fumigation.—All cracksaround doors and windows except the door of exit should be. Manilla paper ROPEON INNER side OF PAPER. Fig. ^s UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ?Rope to ground io.—Detail of preparation of window for rapid ventilation after fumigation.{From Trask: Suppl. 15, P. H. Rep.) sealed with adhesive paper, but the lower windows should notbe locked (Fig. 9). Open all closet doors and bureau the mixture of the reagents is set off, immediately leaveby the unsealed door and seal this from the exterior. When therequired period of exposure is completed, the ground floor win-dows can be opened from the outside and ventilation estab-lished. The quarters should be thoroughly aired before they DISINFECTANTS AND DISINFECTION 103 are entered. When an entire home or building is to be fumi-gated, ventilation after the completion of fumigation will befacilitated by the sealing of the upper story windows in themanner illustrated in Fig. 10, by which means they can beopened from the ground. 9. Insecticides.—The employment of these will be con-sider
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