Fumigating a Shawl
Dear Aunt Daisy, The other day I heard you discussing a request for a method of fumigating a woollen shawl. The lady made it to give to the mother of a new baby; but having developed measles during the period she was working upon it, thought she would be on the safe side, and fumigate it before it was wrapped round the new baby. You suggested washing, and I was rather surprised that you did not teil her to smoke it with sulphur smoke. In case you haven’t heard of this method I will give it in this short note. Take a tray of hot cinders and put it into the copper. Suspend the article to be disinfected over this tray, using the copper stick. Sprinkle sulphur over the cinders, and cover all with a blanket. This process will also take out the yellow tinge which woollens get if hung in the
sun.-
M.
M.
(Newtown).
Yes, thank you very much. I can visualise the process exactly. Very good. ‘At the same time, you can always get things fumigated by sending them to the Public Hospital, and they will put them in the fumigating room with their own things. Also, the latest idea is that sun is one of the best means of sterilisation — six hours of continuous sunshine is considered sufficient.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 45
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225Fumigating a Shawl New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 45
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