Electrolytically produced fluids containing hypochlorites, their manufacture, and the rationale and chemistry of the process for securing stability / by Frederick W. Alexander.

  • Alexander, Frederick William, 1859-1937.
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: Electrolytically produced fluids containing hypochlorites, their manufacture, and the rationale and chemistry of the process for securing stability / by Frederick W. Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from The Lancet t ELECTROLYTICALLY PRODUCED FLUIDS CONTAINING HYPOCHLORITES, THEIR MANUFACTURE, AND THE RATIONALE AND CHEMISTRY OF THE PROCESS FOR SECURING STABILITY. By FREDERICK W. ALEXANDER, L.R.O.P. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., D.P.H., MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. In the metropolitan borough of Poplar the Hermite process of making an electrolytic disinfecting fluid has been in operation for a period of nearly two years. The fluid has been made throughout at an average strength of from 4 '2 to 4‘8 grammes or more of available chlorine per litre and by appropriate treatment has been rendered exceedingly stable, thereby enabling it practically to maintain an un- diminished strength for months, and even extending to years, as samples taken and kept since the installation of the plant prove. Owing to the evanescence of the chlorine great difficulty was experienced at first in ren- dering the fluid stable. I was occasioned much anxiety, as the process that I had recommended and which had been adopted by my council was not giving the satis- factory results that I had anticipated and had been led to hope for. I had been assured, and in turn had assured my council, before adopting the process, that the fluid could be rendered 'quite stable % the addition of certain chemicals.