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Disinfection   /dɪsɪnfˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Disinfection

noun
1.
Treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms.





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"Disinfection" Quotes from Famous Books



... several homes. There was no panic. The military discipline remained unbroken. Students and teachers fell at their posts. The great college building was taken charge of by the medical authorities, and the work of disinfection and sanitation is still going on. Only the convalescents and the fearless samurai president, Saito Kumataro, remain in it. Like the captain who scorns to leave his sinking ship till all souls are safe, the president stays in the centre of danger, nursing the sick ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... sanitary science has been such, however, that if approved precautions are taken at once to put all of our cities and towns in the best sanitary condition, and provision is made for isolating any sporadic cases and for a thorough disinfection, an epidemic can, I am sure, be avoided. This work appertains to the local authorities, and the responsibility and the penalty will be appalling if it is neglected or ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... abortion," says Dr. Hirsch, "and at the same time combat contraceptive measures may be likened to the person who would fight contagious diseases and forbid disinfection. For contraceptive measures are important weapons in ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger
... who were all Chinamen, were taken to the quarantine station, where the usual process of fumigation and disinfection took place. ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 29, May 27, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... we went over the buildings. But a few days before, contagious diseases had been treated here. A hasty disinfection had left the wards reeking with formaline which rasped the throat without disguising the sickly stench of the crowded sufferers. They were huddled round the stoves in the rooms, lying upon the beds of the dormitories, or crouching on ...
— The New Book Of Martyrs • Georges Duhamel


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