TO CURB SPREAD OF GERMS
TESTS IN U.S. OF ULTRAVIOLET FLOODLIGHT POSSIBLE USE IN PUBLIC PLACES (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 12, 7.30 p.m.) CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts), January 11. "A new ultra-violet floodlight designed to curb influenza and other' air-borne diseases, which has been developed at the Harvard School of Public Health; has been erected in. a hospital corridor, confining infectious diseases in one wing from the other. It has also been installed in surgical operation rooms, Human beings passing through the light supposedly will be rid of infectious germs or will be unable to transmit them. Other installations, after the device has been further perfected, are planned for railway cars, hotels, and so on.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21989, 13 January 1937, Page 9
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