Davis County Clipper | 1916-07-28 | Page 5 | Pencils Made Sterile

pencils pencil made sterile school physicians have recently decided that school lead pencils may do deadly work as disseminators of disease germs the lead pencils for an entire room are usually in charge of the teacher and are distributed when they are needed tor for class work children habitually moisten the pencils la in their mouths a practice more unsanitary than the use ot of the old fashioned slate elate cleaned with saliva it Is now proposed to have the pencils fumigated dally daily with formaldehyde gas and a small fumigator has been designed tor for that purpose the fumigator Is the size of a one burner gas hot plate the top will hold 50 pencils they are set in place and the fumigating fumi gating gas turned on for 15 minutes which renders them absolutely sterile