Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — A Doctor’s Germ-Proof House. [ARTICLE]

A Doctor’s Germ-Proof House.

A doctor in Yokohama, Japan, has built himself a novel house with a view to guarding against microbes. The walls of this remarkable edifice are made of blocks of glass. They are hollow, the interstices being filled with a solution of salts of soda, which is intended to regulate the temperature of the interior. The windows are hermetically closed and air is only admitted after passing through filters