MOORE MIXTURE AND TYPHOID GERMS

MOORE MIXTURE AND TYPHOID GERMS

An expert of the Agricultural Department at Washington, D. C., claims to have discovered a method of purifying the water supplies of cities, whereby typhoid and malaria germs can be absolutely exterminated. The means employed is not the Bordeaux mixture—a preparation of copper sulphate, lime, and water—but the application of various chemicals, changing with existing conditions. The chief principle of the discovery, however, is the method of application. Although the chemical constituents of the water, the character of pollution, the temperature of the water and the season of the year are all factors in governing the method and constituents of the treatment, the system is comparatively simple and is susceptible of application by any trained scientist such as should be found at the head of boards of health or in charge of State laboratories. The cost of application is insignificant being, apart from the pay of those engaged to supervise the work, not over fifty or sixty cents a million gallons of water treated, and the preparations used for eradicating the typhoid or other germs are tasteless, odorless and harmless, in no way interfering with the use of the water for drinking purposes.

据说，水中溶液的存在对那些喝溶液的人没有不良影响。伤寒细菌在一个小时内绝对被摧毁；溶液不会受到溶液的伤害，因为所使用的量很小，以至于无法通过化学分析检测到它。在将溶液放入溶液之后，水的口味没有令人不愉快的味道。该摩尔溶液与寄生虫和藻类结合在一起，所有细菌都会死亡，并与粘液一起沉入底部，然后水是纯净的，如晶体一样清晰。这些藻类为蚊子提供食物，但溶液破坏了这种食物，这当然意味着破坏这些害虫和疟疾的消失，疟疾被昆虫传播。这一发现最有价值的特征之一是可以清洁和净化城市的供水以及工作中所涉及的小成本。农业部正在与纽约，马萨诸塞州和其他地方的卫生委员会合作，并指出已经发现，在每种实验的情况下，绿色物质都已从储层中取出。这些藻类中的一些有极不良气味，但是在施用溶液时，所有令人反感的物质都被从水中清除。当知道一些较大的城市已经花费25,000至30,000美元的抽水空气来清理水库时，将获得清洁和纯化的廉价的一些想法。 Failures invariably followed these expensive experiments. But, where the Moore solution was applied, the reservoirs were cleaned successfully and promptly at an expense of only $400 to $500. This solution is wonderfully effective for this purpose, as some of the reservoirs emitted such bad smells that even live stock refused to drink the water, yet within three days it is claimed, after the solution had been applied, they drank the same water freely. Drinking pools on some of the farms in the blue grass region of Kentucky where so thick with the slime that it could be cut with a knife. It was extremely important to clean this out in order to make the water palatable and to reduce the number of parasites, such as mosquitoes and other insects. This was accomplished. In the destruction of typhoid bacillus the effectiveness of the solution is wonderful. It seems to be extremely sensitive. One part in ten million will destroy the bacillus in one hour.