EPIDEMIC DISEASE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 79

EPIDEMIC DISEASE.

“NiP IT SN THE BUD.”

“ It's catching”—this is what people say whett a malady spreads among them as fire spreads in dry grass ; the phrase states a fact without explanation, which is a pity, because if onca you understand why “ it’s catching,” you can prevent it catching instead of having to cure it —cure is often impossible, and is expensive.

Now you can understand the flame running through grass, but you can only sec the spread of disease by its results, because disease is spread by living germs or seeds, too small to sec, and so light that air can carry and distribute them; the only way to prevent Disease Germs “catching” is to kill them, lo kill on invisible foe may seem difficult ; but in this case it is easy and cheap, for you can kill Disease Germs by meeting them at every point with something in hourly use and immediately fatal to them. Science has given us this in Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap, and its germ-killing power in hospitals and sanitation has stamped it as a world-tested Life Saver.

But it is the protection of health in your own home that is your particular care, and it is there that Lifebuoy Soap will block the Disease Germ or “nip it in the bud” before it does harm. When you have used Lifebuoy Soap in bath and bedroom, employed it ia house cleaning and flushing sinks and drams, its disinfecting power will have rendered Germ* life almost impossible ; almost, but not quite { to do the work more thoroughly, you must use Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry. Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry catches tha germ in the right place to “nip it in the bud, 5 ' namely, in your clothes and bouse linen. All week tire clothes have gathered the inevitable germs from the air, the street, the office and the train, the laundry provides the place for their wholesale execution, and Lifebuoy Soap carries it out relentlessly. Lifebuoy Soap will pile your wash-basket with fragrant, snowy linen, absolutely germfree find practically germ-proof. Lse Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry, and the Disease Germs, instead of catching will be caught—“aicped in the bud 55 before they do hurra.