GIANT STERILISING MACHINES SENT OT PERSHING.
, .NE,W ft %ORK, March. 11. ! Ten sterilising machine^,- each, weighing 8000 pounds, saicTio be the largest pieqes ..-.of; disinfecting apparatus qv«i' nxai^nfactured, have been completed, for shipment to -the American, overseas; forces. By use of the specially, devised apparatus it is expected the danger of typhius fever a,nd. other diseases among the. iroops will be reduced, to a . mini- : mum. The machines. not only, will aterilise the clatlnng and effects of the fighters, -but will be Used for disinfecting surgical dressings, •' :
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 8
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87GIANT STERILISING MACHINES SENT OT PERSHING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 8
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