Either copperas or chloride of lime may be thrown dry into water closets. A little disinfectant should be kept standing in all sputa cups, urinals, and bedpans, and in cases of typhoid, and cholera, the stools must be carefully disinfected. These diseases are not only directly infectious, but the germs in the discharges may multiply and spread the disease. Cover the bottom of receiving vessels for stools with copperas or chloride of lime, and after use add crude hydrochloric or sulphuric acids in quantity equal to half the bulk of the discharge. Cover closely and carry from the room, and empty into a trench prepared to receive them, at a distance from the water supply, and all clothing and bedding soiled by the discharges must be disinfected and boiled. After a case is ended the room must be subjected to a cleaning and fumigation. Everything that can be so treated should be either boiled or subjected to a heat of 220° in a disinfecting oven. Rubber sheets and aprons may be cleaned with bichloride solution, and the floors, woodwork, and perhaps the walls should also be washed with a solution of bichloride of Mercury. While the room is being fumigated, drawers and closets should be open and things not thoroughly disinfected should be hung up in it. A good way to fumigate the room is to burn sulphur in it, but you may evolve chlorine from common salt in the following way: Mix an equal bulk of common salt and black oxide of manganese in a shallow earthen dish, add two pints of sulphuric acid previously diluted with two pints of water, and stir with a stick. It is best in using this to have also steam in the room. To fumigate a room have the doors, windows, and fireplace closed, and paste paper carefully over the cracks. If sulphur is used put it in iron pans, allowing two pounds to every thousand cubic feet of space; set the pans on brick, so that they will not burn the floor; pour a little alcohol on the sulphur and ignite, then leave the room quickly so that you do not breathe the gas; paste up the door when you go out; keep it closed for twenty-four hours, then open all the windows and let the room air. Those directing the disinfection should always remember the bleaching and corroding power of chlorine and sulphurous acid gas. When a patient has died from any infectious disease the body should be washed in some disinfectant solution, or soap should be used containing bichloride of mercury, and a sheet should be wrapped around the body wet with the same. Saturate also a large wad of cotton with it and leave it under the hips. The burial should be soon and private in these cases. OF THE NURSE’S DUTIES IN CARING FOR THE DYING AND DEAD. Certain duties devolve upon the nurse in cases of DEATH from any disease, and I prefer to refer to those duties here.