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Title: The Russo-Japanese war : medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Great Britain. War Office MacPherson, William Grant, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Military hygiene
Publisher: London : Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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owner.They take the place of cupboards, &c. Remaining furnituremay consist of a few Chinese tables and chairs. This descriptionapplies mainly to the Manchurian village house in which thetroops are cantoned. In disinfecting these houses, the furniture is removed. Anyof the chests that the soldiers want kept in the rooms, as cup-boards for food, utensils, &c, are emptied and scrubbed withperchloride of mercury solution, 1 in 1000. All fixed woodworkin the room is similarly treated. Such woodwork consists ofdoor and window frames, rafters, and a wooden combing alongthe edge of the kangs. The mud walls and floors are washed all over with a brushsteeped in carbolic acid solution, 1 in 20. The surface of mudso treated is then scraped, and the room is now considereddisinfected. The windows are paper windows, and the soldiers themselvesmay buy clean rolls of paper in their battalion field canteens fora small sum, and re-paper, not only the windows, but also thewalls. (After page 475.
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An improvised method of disinfecting the blankets of enteric feverpatients in a field hospital at Pa-pao-tnn, summer of 1906. A sakecask is placed over a Chinese cooking vessel. The vessel is filled withwater and the bottom of the cask is perforated. When the water boils,the steam rises into the cask, in which are the articles to be disin-fected. A heavy stone is placed over the lid of the cask and blanketunderneath, in order to maintain pressure, and other possible placeswhere steam might escape are caulked. MEDICAL.—REPORT 37. 476 Disinfection of surface soil is by means of slaked lime.Twenty per cent, of oxide of lime in water is used for thispurpose, and the mixture is sprinkled over every portion of thesurface. No other disinfectants are used in the Field Army. Allare supplied to the field units, who carry out the disinfectionthemselves, by the Medical and Surgical Reserve Depots of eachdivision. Carbolic acid is supplied in bottles, just as in Europe. Perchloride of mercury is

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