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Show Disinfecting Theaters. A committee of French doctors has been instructed to submit to the Paris police a scheme of regulations for minimizing the danger of the dissemination dissem-ination of infectious diseases at theatrical theat-rical performances. It is proposed, in the first place, that every theater shall be disinfected after every performance by means of sawdust steeped in antiseptics. anti-septics. It also is recommended that windows and doors shall be kept wide open in the intervals between the performances, per-formances, that the cushioned seats shall be sponged with antiseptics, thai the cloak-room attendants shall undergo under-go regular medical inspection, and finally fin-ally that the air of the house shall be sterilized once a week by means ol steam charged with formaldehyde. Pestiferous microbes certainly will need to be of a very hardy character to resist this drastic treatment. Westminster West-minster Gazette. |