Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1903 — PREVENTB SMALLPOX. [ARTICLE]

PREVENTB SMALLPOX.

Alabastine will not cure smallpox and other contagious diseases, once they have fastened their deadly grip upon their victims. It will do much, however, toward preventing their spread. It is a well recognized fact that certain wall coatings do much to harbor disease germs and propagate same; that of all coverings wall paper is the most likely to hold the germs of disease for months and years. There are well authenticated cases where smallpox, scarlet fever and other germs have lain dormant for years, and have attacked persons afterward when the paper was removed. Kalsomlnes stuck on the wall with decaying glue are not much better than wall paper with its vegetable paste. Alabastine is recommended generally by sanitarians, as a coating for walls in any style of work, as it is perfectly sanitary, is in the nature of a disinfectant, presents a perfectly hard surface, is manufactured from a cemeut base, and does not furnish a lodgment ground for disease germs. Years ago these matters received but little attention, but modern scientists becoming appalled at the spread of the dread disease, smallpox, and the difficulty in stamping it out, have gone to investigating causes, and unhesitatingly say that improper wall coatings have very much to do with this. Alabastine is recommended to be used on all infected walls, to destroy germs and to get walls once more in a healthy condition.