PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - V. G. Alder
AU  - W. A. Gillespie
TI  - Disinfection of woollen blankets in steam at subatmospheric pressure
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.14.5.515
DP  - 1961 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 515--518
VI  - 14
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/14/5/515.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/14/5/515.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol1961 Sep 01; 14
AB  - Blankets may be disinfected in steam at subatmospheric pressures by temperatures below boiling point inside a suitably adapted autoclave chamber. The chamber and its contents are thoroughly evacuated of air so as to allow rapid heat penetration, and steam is admitted to a pressure of 10 in. Hg below atmospheric pressure, which corresponds to a temperature of 89°C. Woollen blankets treated 50 times by this process were undamaged. Vegetative organisms were destroyed but not spores. The method is suitable for large-scale disinfection of blankets and for disinfecting various other articles which would be damaged at higher temperatures.