Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — Disinfecting a Whole Car. [ARTICLE]

Disinfecting a Whole Car.

The danger of infection in railroad cars, especially sleeping cars, has long been recognized, and the cleaning of such cars, their cushions and bedding. Is an esesntial part of their care. But a methodical German has invented a meaps of subjecting a whole car to a process of disinfection and sterilization. The Potsdam officials have built a tube 15 fCet in diameter and 70 feet long, or large enough to take In a European sleeping car. The ends are closed with air-tight doors. Then hot air is turned on, at a temperature high enough to kill most of the undesirable passengers that sometimes travel free in car cushions, especially in southern Europe. At the same time the air is exhausted to a pressure corresponding to four er five inches of - mercury. This continues the process begun by the great heat. Finally, formaldehyde vapor Is introfluded, completing the discomfiture of microbes that may have been left behind by travelers. Notfiing remains /hut to open the cylinder and ,let>-*d?sh air replace the disinfecting irumes.