An Odorless Disinfectant

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 25, 1886

An Odorless Disinfectant.

A VERY effective, but highly poisonous disinfectant may be made by dissolving corrosive sublimate and permanganate of potash in soft water in the proportion of two drams of each salt to the gallon. The cost is a little over two cents a gallon, the corrosive sublimate costing sixty or seventy cents a pound, and the permanganate about the same. It must be remembered that this solution is highly poisonous. It is proper, also, to call attention to the fact that it will injure lead pipes if passed through them in considerable quantities.—Sel.