Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1874 — A Simple Disinfectant. [ARTICLE]

A Simple Disinfectant.

One pound of green copperas,costing seven cents, dissolved in one quart of water, and poured down a water closet, will effectually ■concentrate and destroy’ the foul- ■ est smells. On board ships and steamboats, about hotels, and other public places, there is.nothing so nice -to purity the air. Simple I green copperas dissolved in any- ! thing, placed under the bed, will render an hospital, or other places i for the sick, free from unpleasant smells. In fish-markets, slaughter- ; i houses, sinks, and wherever there ; are offensive gases, dissolve eopi peras and sprinkle it about, and in j a few days the-smell will all pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house, and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved copperas in an open vessel ’ i near the place where the nuisance I is, and it will purify the atmosphere. , Then, keep all clean.