DISINFECTING WITH SULPHUR.
By Sanitary Volunteer
THE following is the correct method of fumigating with sulphur, and the only one of practical value in infected dwelling-houses: The house must be vacated. Heavy clothing, blankets, bedding, and other articles which cannot be treated with disinfecting solutions, should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as directed below. Close the room as tightly as possible, place the sulphur in iron pans supported by bricks placed in wash-tubs containing a little water; set the sulphur on fire by hot coals, or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to be closed for twenty-four hours. For a room about ten feet square, at least three pounds of sulphur should be used; for larger rooms, proportionally larger quantities. Heavy woolen clothing, silks, furs, stuffed bed-covers, beds, and other articles which cannot be treated with fluid disinfectants, should be hung in the room during fumigation, their surfaces thoroughly exposed, and pockets turned inside out. Afterward they should be hung in the open air, beaten and shaken. Pillows, beds, stuffed mattresses, upholstered furniture, etc., should be cut open and their contents spread out and thoroughly fumigated. Carpets are best fumigated on the floor, but they should afterward be removed to the open air and thoroughly beaten.—Sanitary Volunteer.