To know the resisting power of tubercle bacilli against the sunlight, the following experiments were undertaken. It is only different from the former test in that author have used direct sunlight instead of the mercury lamp. At a time of these experiment, only a very bright sunny day in each month of the year was chosen. The results are as follows:
1. During the summer, that is between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. in month of May to August, tubercle bacilli were killed by the direct sunlight in 9 minutes.
2. In winter—At 11 a. m. duriug December, January an d February—the time required to kill the bacilli was 14 minutes.7 minutes in the month of April and May, 10 minutes in March and October and 12 minutes in November.3
. At the north side of a toll building where th e light only comes directory from the clear sky, the various tubercle bacilli were killed in 30—60 minutes.
4. By exposing in a diffuse light of a room in the labor a t orium, the tubercle bacilli were unharmed even in 11 hours exposure.
5. By exposing to the direct sunlight, various kinds of acid-fast bacilli under the same conditions, the timothei bacilli displayed the strongest resisting power against sunlight, and the bovine and the human type of tubercle bacilli came next in order and then the avian type which was the weakest.
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