YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How By JANE STAFFORD IF WAR-SLOWED service by dry cleaning establishments has led you to think of doing your dry cleaning at home, remember that you may be embarking on a...
...The test was made by a six-man team of U. S. Navy disease fighters, Lieut-S...
...Nicholas D. Lill, Lieut...
...Fortunately, it will probably be impossible for anyone who wants to do dry cleaning at home to get any gasoline for that purpose today...
...Jacob Gershon-Cohen and Capt...
...Fluids labeled 'non-explosive' may still be highly inflammable...
...Germ-killing ultra-violet light has previously been used to check the spread of disease in hospital wards and school rooms and to sterilize the air about the patient in operating rooms...
...The fumes from most non-inflammable cleaning fluids are poisonous when inhaled in large quantities," warns a report from the New York State Department of Health...
...Hollis S. Ingraham, Dr...
...Comdr...
...Just the friction of rubbing a fabric can create an igniting spark...
...Gasoline used to be the big hazard...
...War-caused substitutions of materials in cleaning fluids may also provide unsuspected dangers...
...Even though you take precautions...
...M. Wheeler, Lieut...
...Other barracks without the ultraviolet irradiation served as controls...
...YOUR HEALTH: Here's How By JANE STAFFORD IF WAR-SLOWED service by dry cleaning establishments has led you to think of doing your dry cleaning at home, remember that you may be embarking on a highly dangerous course...
...fumes may travel throughout the house and become ignited from the match of a smoker in a distant room, the kitchen range's pilot light, the fire in the furnace or any un-remembered flame...
...Alexander Hollaneder, Lieut...
...Science Service Reports Benefits Of Ultraviolet Rays NEW, YORK—Respiratory illness, such as bad colds with fever, German measles, scarlet fever, and the like, was reduced one fourth by ultraviolet irradiation of dormitories at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Sampson, N. Y., during the Winter of 1943-1944, it was announced at the meeting here of the American Public Health Association...
...A small bottle or can of non-inflammable cleaning fluid may be kept on hand for removing an occasional spot or stain...
...Almost any doctor, especially one who has had experience on the accident service of city hospitals, can tell you tragic stories of women and children who have been killed or, at best, maimed and disfigured for life, because of home dry cleaning accidents...
...Gleaning fluids containing gasoline, benzine, or naptha are both a fire and explosion hazard...
...The 25 per cent' reduction in respiratory illness was achieved in those barracks equipped with high intensity sources of ultraviolet energy...
...For the all-over cleaning job, however, it is safer, and usually better for the clothes, to send them out to a reliable dry cleaning establishment...
...E. W. Brown...
...This, however, was its first test in military barracks...
...Other cleaning fluids, however, are also dangerous...
...Comdr...
...Be sure to keep it out of reach of small children who might decide to take a swig of it...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 49
