Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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by steam freeof charge. The bedding and clothing should remain in theroom while it is being disinfected and afterwards should bepacked in a tightly closing canvas bag and conveyed to thedisinfection station. Disinfecting Clothes at Home.—Spraying the clothes,however, with a strong solution of formaldehyde is an effi-cient means of disinfecting them. They should be sprayedwhen the room is being disinfected, and remain in the roomwhile it is closed up. Another method is to hang the clothesloosely in a closet, and generate the vapors of formaldehydeby burning a lamp for decomposition of solid tablets ofpolymerized formaldehyde, which should be used in the pro-portion of seventy-five for every one thousand cubic feet ofair space in the closet. The door of the closet must be keptclosed and sealed while the formaldehyde is being generated,and should remain so for twenty-four hours afterward. Boiling for at least half an hour is one of the surest waysof disinfecting contaminated clothing.
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PREPARING DAINTY DISHES. It is woman s pride to skilfully and intelligently prepare healthfulfood, and such as is adapted to the needs of her family. She should befamiliar with the principles of cooking as given by an authority. THE COMMON AFFECTIONS 333 Care of the Body After Death.—When a child has diedof scarlet fever, diphtheria or small-pox its body should beat once wrapped in a sheet saturated with a five per cent,solution of carbolic acid or a chloride of lime solution ora one to one thousand corrosive sublimate, or a four per cent,formaldehyde solution, and immediately placed in its coffinor casket which is then closed. Burial or cremation shouldoccur as soon as practicable. In most States the law forbidspublic funerals in these cases. DISINFECTING A PRIVY, CESSPOOL, ETC. After any contagious disease has occurred, the privyvault or cesspool should be disinfected, two and a halfpounds of chlorinated lime being used for every eight gal-lons, or about one cubic foot, of fecal m

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