disinfected

A ritual should not be taken into a smallpox room, because a book cannot be disinfected without rendering it useless.

Books should be removed, because an infected book can not be disinfected except upon the outside.

The objects used by a child that has whooping-cough should be disinfected, and its books and papers are to be burnt.

Filter candles are disinfected immediately after use by boiling in a beaker of water for some fifteen or twenty minutes.

As a disinfectant the solution should be sprinkled freely around the place or places to be disinfected.