MONDAY. 8.30 AM.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 10

MONDAY. 8.30 AM.

Some Reflections on a Boiling Copptr. "The.copper's boiling"—thisij-.the com. mon phrase of early.Monday.the.KouSewifV, call to the weekly task. Let us. follow itVjth a question that is not so simple as it sounds: "What is it boiling for?'" Most people woqkj answer, "Why,.to boil the diitout of i| le clothes, ofcourse."- Quite so,, bat for heaUb's sake sbmetliing more-than dirt has. to be done away with in the household washing,' namely ■ theseeds of infectious.disease.-- .. .::"■ Infection maybe communicated to a whole city (and beyond it) from one single patient, of which the smallpox, epidemic is a:cise u> point. It is due to. tiny organisms, hardly visible' through, a. microscope/ but intensely alive, thrown off in the coarse of the disease/ These float in the air or dust and drift .to .clothei and houst linen as naturally as steel draws' to a magnet; we call them " Germs," or seeds ol disease, because just as an ordinary seed groWi to a plant, so a disease germ'on a human body breeds disease ;'. the only protectioß against germs is to destroy them.' - The question is: Will boiling water:arid ■ common soap do it ? ■ Not always; some; disease germs may thrive, or , even breedjiin both. So we must- use a cleanser, that .will . not only clean • clothes and house. S linen thoroughly, but also kill all disease germs that have lodged, in them. Fortunately fpj us, manufacture and science have combined r lo meet this want with Lifebuoy .Soap.'- 'Bj' : using Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry the germs of infectious diseases are"caught and : killed ■ wholesale, because Lifebuoy Soap is' both 1 perfect laundry cleanser-and a.strong.-ais. ' infecfant as Well, and when the household clothing and linen are washed with it, disease germs find destruction instead of a refuge..-, Our crowded population doubles "the. risk of infection, Lifebuoy-Soap reduces ,it;,but Lifebuoy Soap must.l>e so used as: to cover ; both cleansing and disinfection; Lifebuoy Soap for the ba;h< Lifebuoy Soap for floori and walls, Lifebuoy Soap for kitchen and scullery, and when the copper boils on Monday morning,' then let it be especially gnd always Lifebuoy Soap for the 'da/j washing. - "■ ; "