Spread of Consumption

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1623, 14 December 1912, Page 9

Spread of Consumption

By Perspiration. Lecturing recently at the, Academy of Meif« cine, Paris, Dr. Foncet stated that he and M. Miery, of Lyons,■ had. found virulent tubercle bacilli .in the perspiration of over 3a per cent of the patients they had examined who were suffering, from tuberculosis lestonj of a surgical type. These, consisting as they did of cases of rheumatism and peritonitis,, were either inactive or.feebly active. In those cases, where -the .disease was strong active bacilli were almost always present. In fact, the violent , sweats of the consumptive may be regarded as. one of- Nature's means of getting,rid!of the''poisonous microbes. . The doctor insisted-that it was necessary to disinfect all clothing and other objects that had been contaminated by the sweat of the tuberculous, and that separate beds should always be reserved for them. Recently Mr. F. H. Molesworth, F.C.S., F.G.S., of Sydney, had a pound of dust swept up from a wharf, and found it to contain the bacillus of tuberculosis. Having immersed this in a 10 per cent, solution of Lifebuoy Soap for 15 minutes, thetubercle bacilli (which wera. fairly numerous) were all destroyed. Household dust he treated in the same manner, with the same practical results, clearly demonstrating the strong germicidal powers of Lifebuoy Soap. ' It is a very simple matter to destroy disease germs in the weekly wash, and there is,;no surer way of dqiflgthis than'by using Lifeba'oy Soap in the laundry, as well as for general household work. Lifebuoy Soap will not hurt the skin : in fact, it is very , largely used as a hath soap, readily washing off perspiration, and at the same time destroying any disease germs that may be in the perspiration.