DISEASE IN AMBUSH.
GERMS ROUTED FROM THE LAUNDRY. It i 3 only diseases that are infectious that can Ho in ambush, ready to launch de&ro amongst the inmates of a home, and whej| wo search the homo for the readiest plac* of ambush we find it in the laundry. Thi* is a statement of fact easily provable. The laundry claims and cleanses every week the clothes we wear, our bed, table, kitchen* and bath linen, handkerchiefs, towels, an 4 curtains. Nothing absorbs and carries th« germs or seeds of disease so readily at these; to ambush the ambushing diseaw germ therefore we must begin in tha laundry. Next as to the method. Mere cleansinf is not enough, for eome disease germs m&y laugh at boiling water, and may even breecf in commoner sorts of soapsuds. The only way to deal with the disease germ is fcft kill it. because its life is its power to infects. and only when dead is it harmless: eo w 4 must not only begin with the laundry, but must find a laundry soap which is also A strong disinfectant. This brings us to the final point W« have the place and we know the method) Lifebuoy Soap gives us the means. It may. be true that gome disease germs laugh at ordinary soap —but never a,t " Lifebuoy,'• for it must be remembered that Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap has proved germ-destroying power all over the in hospitals, hotels, and places of public resort, and in private homes by the hundred thousand. In the laundry Lifebuoy Soap gets to the weekly ambush of disease, where it frees house and body linen of the seed* of disease, hunts them from their ambush and kills them; yet withal Lifebuoy Soap is & perfect laundry soap, and from its creamy lather the- most delicate fabrics emerge bat snowy piles of fragrant napery. Lifebuoy Soap does not roughen £Ee band* or stain the nails, being as familiar an object oU washi?tand and bath-bracket as in kitchen and household. Take Lifebuoy Soap when* you will, use it how you will, it is always a perfect soap and perfect Disinfectant. Lifebuoy Soap ie a laundry soap that will perfectly rout the disease germs ambushed in the laundry f thus preventing the v.-ecilj; wash boc-oming a diseAsc-currier. , i
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Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 53
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384DISEASE IN AMBUSH. Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 53
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