A SIMPLE DISINFECTANTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3195, 24 September 1881, Page 3

A SIMPLE DISINFECTANTS.

Dr Domett Stone, F.R.C.S., has suggested a cheap and simple disinfectant, which promises to bo very useful in the present hot weather : " The remedial agent, I would Venture to suggest," he says, " is a solution of of chloride of lead, which was first brought into notice by the late Dr Goolden, of St. Thomas's Hospital. It is inodorous, most effective, and its cost infinitesimal. It may be prepared as follows : .Half drachm of nitrate of lead, dissolved in a pint or more ol boiling water (nitrate of lead is a soluble salt, and a very cheap, it may be had in any quantity for about 6d. a pound), and dissolve two drachms of common salt in a pail or bucket of water, pour the two solutions together, and allow the sediment to subside. The clear supernatant fluid will be a saturated solution of chloride of lead. Here I may observe that if the general public would have their areas and dust bins disinfected with the solution in question it would conduce materially to the health and comfort of the community at large. This was forcibly brought to my mind a day or two ago in passing by several of our West-end mansions, from the areas of which there emanated ' the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever oflended nostril.' It may not be out of place to add that a cloth dipped in a solution of chloride of lead and hung up _in a room will sweeten a fetid atmosphere instantaneovisly, or the solution thrown down a sink, water-closet, or drain, or over a heap of refuse will produce alike result."

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