ADVANCED METHOD OF REMOVING GERMS AND DUST FROM RAILWAY

CARS.

The management of the Central Railroad of New Jersey has made another step of advancement through the recent installation of a system of car cleaning which has the universal approval of the health authorities along its line, and as it is practically the first transportation company to adopt it, the method may be of interest to our readers.

The old method of car cleaning with a whisk here and a dash there with a broom or duster was not only unsanitary, but unsatisfactory, for the reason that it had the effect largely of removing dust and dirt from one section and depositing it elsewhere; but under the new method, which is termed the "Vacuum Sweeping System," the dirt and dust is drawn from the car by suction through a pipe and is gone forever. The New Jersey Central has erected an immense vacuum plant in its Jersey City yards, and for a distance of 3,600 feet has laid pipe varying from two to five inches in diameter, covering in all about three miles. At short intervals this pipe is tapped, and from these cocks is run the flexible hose, which may be taken in the car either by door or window. At the foot of the hose is a metal pipe with a flat triangular end, along the base of which is an opening, and through which the dust and dirt is drawn by the Vacuum, or "drawing-in machine," located a distance away. The operator runs the slot opening over the cushions, carpets, curtains, wood-work, etc., and without any commotion or dust raising every loose particle of germ is whisked away, everything being left clean and wholesome. The dust thus removed, before reaching the great "drawing-in machine," must pass through two dust separators, the first of which clears the air of 90 per cent. of the grit, dust and germs; the second separator or cylinder draws the air through water in which corrosive sublimate is used, and completes perfectly the purification. The New Jersey Central management has for a long time felt the necessity for a more sanitary method of car cleaning, and the Vacuum System, while reducing disease liabilities to a minimum, at the same time reduces the cost of cleaning and time consumed. Two cars can be thoroughly cleaned under the new system at the same expense of time and money as was formerly consumed in cleaning one, and this in connection with the increased sanitary value is sure to cause its general introduction within a short time, not only by other transportation companies, but by theaters, hotels, places of resort, and even the home.

TRI-IODIDES

(HENRY'S.) Liquor Sal-Iodides.

A powerful alterative and resolvent, glandular and hepatic Colchicin, 1-20 grain. Phytolaccin, 1-10 stimulant, and succedaneum to the lodides. Indicated in all grain. Solanin, 1-3 grain. Soda Saliconditions dependent upon perverted tissue metabolism in lymoylate, 10 grains. Iodic Acid, equal to phatic engorgements and functional visceral disturbances; 7-32 grains Iodine. Aromatic Cordial. lingering rheumatic pains which are worse at night." Bone, perlostea and visceral symptoms of late syphilis; for the removDose 1 to 2 dr. in water. 8-oz. bottle $1. al of all inflammatory, plastic and gouty deposits. ▲ remedy in sciatica, megrim, neuralgias, lumbago and muscular pains; the gouty and rheumatic diathesis; acute and chronic rheumatism and gout; chroulc eczema and psoriasis, and all dermic disorders in which there is underlying blood taint. An hepatic stimulant increasing the quantity and fluidity of the bile. Relieves hepatic and intestinal torpor; does not cause the unpleasant gastric symptoms of potassium iodide.

THREE CHLORIDES (HENRY'S.) Liquor Ferrisenic.

Bach drachm contains Proto-Chlor. Iron, 1-8 gr.; Bi-Chlor. Mercury, 1-128 gr.; Chloride Arsenic, 1-280 gr.; Calisaya Cordial. Dose, 1 to 2 dr. 12-oz. ottle, 81.

An oxygen-carrying ferruginous preparation, suitable for prolonged treatment of children, adults and the aged. Indicated In anemia and bodily weakness, convalescence from acute dis eases and surgical operations; boys and girls at the age of pu berty, and the climacteric period in women. In children with chorea, rickets, or who are backward in development, or is whom there exists an aversion to meats and fats. Prolonged administration never causes "Iron headache."

As an adjuvant for potassium iodide the undesirable manifestations known as lodism can be r wed. Stimulant for the peptic and hydrochloric glandular system of the stomach, especially ser viceab he impaired appetite, nausea vomiting and other gastric symptoms of alcoholic subjects.

MAIZO-LITHIUM Liquor Lithium Maizenate.

Nascent Chemic Union of Maizenie
Acid-from Green Corn Silk — with
Lithium, forming Maizenate-Lithium.
Two grains to drachm. Dose, I to 2
drachms. 8-oz. bottle, $1.

A genito-urinary sedative, an active diuretic; solvent and flush indicated for the relief and prevention of renal colle; sedative in the acute stages of gonorrheal cystitis and epididy mitis; in dropsical effusions due to enfeebled heart or to renal diseases. As a solvent in the varied manifestations of gout, goutiness and neurotic lithemia, periodical migrainous beadache, epigastric oppression, cardiac palpitation, Irregular, weak er intermittent pulse; irritability, moodiness, insomnia and other nervous symptoms of uric acidemia, Decidedly BETTER, more economical, extensive in action and definite in results THAN MINERAL WATERS.

Those cases of irritable heart, irregular or intermittent pulse so frequently met with by lasur ance examiners and found to be due to excess of uric acid, are special Indication for Malzo-Lithium HENRY PHARMACAL CO., Louisville, Ky.

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