. Preventive medicine and hygiene. ds, and that a dividingwall running across thebuilding separates the receiv-ing end, where the infectedobjects arrive and are pre-pared for disinfection, fromthe discharging end, wherethe contents of the chamberare aired, dried, and re-packed after disinfection. This separation is essen-tial where a large amount ofdisinfection is done for avariety of diseases, as, forexample, in a municipal dis-infecting establishment or atthe quarantine station of abusy port. It is true thatthe infection of certain dis-eases is not apt to contami-nate the surroundings, andI
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. ds, and that a dividingwall running across thebuilding separates the receiv-ing end, where the infectedobjects arrive and are pre-pared for disinfection, fromthe discharging end, wherethe contents of the chamberare aired, dried, and re-packed after disinfection. This separation is essen-tial where a large amount ofdisinfection is done for avariety of diseases, as, forexample, in a municipal dis-infecting establishment or atthe quarantine station of abusy port. It is true thatthe infection of certain dis-eases is not apt to contami-nate the surroundings, andI . in such cases there would I ^ he little risk in taking the disinfected articles out of thesame end of the chamberfrom which they are put in,especially if the exposed sur-faces are mopped with a dis-infectant in the this is a risk that need not be taken; in fact, all well-regulateddisinfecting plants maintain a rigid separation between the two sides,never allowing both doors of the chamber to be open at the same PHYSICAL AGENTS OF DISINFECTION 1131 and providing two sets of workmen, one for the infected and the disinfected side. The chambers must be loaded with care in order to obtain reliableresults and to avoid injuring the articles exposed to the process. Thepackages must not be too large or crowded too closely, for, although thevacuum facilitates the penetration of the steam, there is a limit in thisregard; it takes so much longer for disinfecting agents to penetratedense packages and bundles that there is little saving of time and a dis-tinct loss in trustworthiness. Steam cannot penetrate compressed bun-dles of rags, bales of cotton, feathers, hair, or other packages of mer-chandise which are often presented for disinfection. Fortunately, it isseldom necessary to disinfect such packages. When, however, this iscalled for it is essential to open and properly expose such objects to theaction of the disinfecting agent. In the municipal disinfecting
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