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Show Hygienic Dish-Washing. The hygienic importance of electric dish-washing has been shown in a report re-port by Surgeon J. G. Cummings of the Uuited States army. Investigating the effects of the inlluenza epidemic in institutions having a quarter of a million people, it was found that where dishes were washed by hand there were 324 cases of the disease : per 1,000 persons ; but in hotels and other places having electric dishwashers dish-washers the rate was only one-third as great, or 10S per 1,000. The washing wash-ing by the machines is not only more thorough than hand washing, but hotter water is used, and this insures more effective sterilization. |