Show I I SALT LAKE AHEAD OF GOTHAM IN PHONE LINE New Yorks York's Latest Plan to Disinfect Telephones Has Been in Operation Here for Months It Is n a fact tact which probably few people know that the thc local tel telephone company company com corn pany pa-ny cleans deans and disinfects Its public phones every three weeks A A. New York special to The Telegram ram saying that the telephones u used ed b by employees of or the companies there must be disinfected every week was the source of ot no surprise to the thc local Bell Telephone company's officials H. H O. O Jackson on superintendent of or the Utah division said today We have long recognized the fact that telephones are often the means of ot transmitting contagious diseases and to reduce the liability to a minimum we not only disinfect our public phones regularly b but bitt t during times when contagious contagious con con- diseases are epidemic we have all public booths disinfected also once I a week We seldom treat the phones used b by our employees es in this manner as M the they have deemed it necessary in Ne New York because each employee ee is furnished furnished fur tur- with her own mn instrument A local physician in discussing the question said sala The telephones particularly the mouth pieces arc excellent traps for tor the collection of ot disease germs and the more rigid the regulations govern governing Ins the thc care cart of oC phones the better hetter the health of ot the public will be he II |