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the Editor —In your issue of Dec. 14, 1912, p. 2171, is a miscellaneous item dealing with a paper on the above subject read by me at the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. item in question, after outlining the suggestions contained in my paper, concludes: The Journal is disposed to wonder as to the reception which would be given to this mode of disinfection. continuous odor of phenol throughout the school building, which would perhaps be even carried home in the scholars' clothing, might arouse protest which would interfere with the carrying out of the plan. May I respectfully point out that you have misunderstood my meaning in this connection! paragraph in my paper to which the above quotation relaies reads as follows: To avoid the objectionable odor inseparable from the use of certain disinfectants of low efficiency (necessitating proportionately low dilutions),
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