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Sunlight as a Disinfectant

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 14.

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Sunlight as a Disinfectant

“CONTRARY to the conditions obtaining in higher plants, sunlight is fatal to all disease germs; even the most resistant of them are killed after a few hours' exposure to the direct rays of the sun. The lesson from this should be obvious; but through fear of faded carpets we shut out the best of all disinfecting agents from our rooms, and make a condition favorable to the developmont of the germs of disease.”