FUMIGATING THE HOUSE
To occupy a house immediately it. is purchased, without careful observance of health precautions, is most unwise. Consumption, that scourge of the laud, a scourge that takes toll at the rate of 10 per cent, of our population, lias been by scientists termed a “house” disease. Remember this fact, wives and mothers of the Dominion! Each room of the newly-bought dwelling should be either fumigated thoroughly on sound medical lines, or stripped and freshly< papered and painted. Fumigation with formalin will effect satisfactorily the purpose required,- and will safeguard from infection the members of your family. You may not realise how active a menace neglect in such directions constitutes. A medical authority declared that upon the cornices of the room occupied-by a eonsumptivVfn the last stages of the' disease the microbe gatliors. Scraped off, and placed under a microscope, these agents of invalidism ami death are plainly discernible. AA’hou fumigation is accomplished, and the house sweetly fresh and clean, occupancy may be entered upon without fear of any member of the family contracting from such a sourc-c that terrible disease, consumption.
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Otaki Mail, 17 February 1919, Page 3
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184FUMIGATING THE HOUSE Otaki Mail, 17 February 1919, Page 3
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