Show PROVES PAINT KILLS GERMS Sterilizing Power of Coat Demonstrated At Washington Germs have hale killed a vastly g a er number ot or people than hAve fallen in all the tho wars ors 15 er fought Io Au o wonder so many bril- bril 1 lIt minds have havo e been devoted de en- en en en tir to ih the wiping 0 out of these e enemies of man One of ot their mot most practical d discoveries rles Is that paInt I is a 0 foe toe to germs A test teal of paints paint's sterilizing pow PO power er ter eras was as recently lec I carrl carried tl out In the Institute of or Industrial lal at D DC C On 1 a labora labora- laboratory laboratory tory tOr wall all one coat of ot paint was applied to a small sm area After drying the painted surface and the tJ Unpainted area next to It 11 1 were ere I lightly rubbed with Ith a different swab s which had been moistened I with sterile ater water The rhe moisture jn n each earh swab was as then out Into plates of agar sugar a 3 like like ly mixture in Yo which germs easily ed multiply C Examination sho showed shoed ed that the plate made mado from the unpaInted aria arta contained a bacterial growth The ono made from the unpainted area sno id ld a a negligible growth groth gro th TES r IS MADE Then a culture of ot three species or of germs each of a death dealing death h pe were cm mixed with a dry pow pow- poder powder pow powder der and blo blown blon n upon the two our sur- sur surfaces painted faces faces painted and unpainted Sim Srm Similarly the germs In to a sterile liquid were ere sprayed on other portions ot of the same foRme surfaces One hour JOlt JOlt- lat later er cr plates sere ere v ere made In n the agar the same as before and the gro growths groIhs Ihs were positive though not so pronounced from the painted area t Nc-t oJe t the tv two 0 surfaced were washed with soap and sterile I water ater Plates In agar agai- wore were made madean madean madean an hour later The agar contain contain- containing ing fog the culture from the un ed area ara showed shoed abundant growth the culture from the paInted larva laren showed very ery little These tests el prove proe that if a 0 painted surface becomes become contaminated the of n 1 din ger gel ger may be removed by washing and also that infected surfaces may be made sterile by paInting These results are probably not so s much due to any germicidal prop prop- ethos which paint may possess but butto butto bulto to the fact tact that the old surface la is coveted cO with a 0 clean lis fit w of n paint I I n I EASILY ILY W The danger ot of an unpaInted dingy or rough wall all Is that it will wiIt retain moisture a long time and an that Its lis porous nature makes It easy tori ton tor floating organic matter to collect This kind bind of wall can can- cannot can cannot not be effectively washed ashe so that the two t 0 necessary Jor bacteria gro moisture growth th moisture and or- or organic or organic ganic matter cannot matter matte cannot annot be remo ed edIt It f a wall all Is h covered with Ith a 0 good waterproof colt coat of paint Its smooth surface is nail washed and need never afford a I testing place for tor germs That is la why hv every ry Inv ot of surface in a hospital Is painted The lesson leson learned by the mod mod- modern modem modern I em ern n hospital hos can well ell be put Into practice in the home In the kit bit t 1 kitchen chen then where here food I Is ed washable ashable painted pained surfaces are un- un unquestionably un unquestionably questionably I steeping sleeping and living living- rooms and particularly nur- nur nurserIes nurseries nur nurseries andI I series require the same protection protections tion lion The ideal feature about I paint In the home of ot course Is the tho tact fact that the same operation produces s 1 I Ia a sanitary surface which beautt beautifies fies Iles 1 |