EPIDEMIC DISEASE.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2624, 20 November 1915, Page 11

EPIDEMIC DISEASE.

"NIP IT IN THE BUD." " If s catching"—this is what people say when a malady spreads among them as fire spreads in dry grass j the phrase states a fact without explanation, which is a pity, because if once you understand why "it's catching," you can prevent it catching instead of having to cure it—cure is often impossible, and is expensive. Now you can understand the flame running through gTass, but you can only see the spread of disease by its results, because disease is spread by living germs or seeds, too small to see, and so light that air can carry and distribute them; the only way to prevent Disease Germs "catching" is to kill them. To kill an invisible foe may seem difficult; but in this case it is easy and cheap, for you can kill Disease Germs by meeting them at every point with something in hourly use and immediately fatal to them. Science has given us this in Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap, and its germ-killing yower in hospitals and sanitation has stamped It Ms a world-tested Life Saver. But it is the protection of health in your own home that is your particular care, and il Is there that Lifebuoy Soap will block the Disease Germ or "nip it in the bud" before it does harm. When you have used Lifebuoj • Soap in bath and bedroom, employed it ii house cleaning and flushing sinks and drains, its disinfecting power will have rendered Germ life almost impossible; almost, but not quite: to do the work more thoroughly, you mus: use Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry. Lifebuoy. Soap in the laundry catches .the germ in the right place to "nip it in the bud,' % namely, in your clothes and house linen All week the clothes have gathered the inevitable germs from the air, the street, the office and the train, the laundry provide.', the place for their wholesale execution, and Lifebuoy Soap carries it out relentlessly. Lifebuoy Soap will pile your wash-baskel with fragrant, snowy linen, absolutely germfree and practically germ-proof. Use Lifebuoy Soap in; the laundry, and the Disease Germs, instead of catching will be caught— " nicced in the bud " before they do harm.