File:"Cootie Killer," makeshift sterilizing equipment, Camp Hospital -52, LeMans, France, 1919 (31981796054).jpg

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Description LC-Lot-8333-4: WWI-American Expeditionary Forces. Cootie Killer” A home-made contrivance consisting of a brick oven with a tub over it. Over the tub is placed a large barrel with a wire bottom. Garments, etc., are placed in the barrel and the vapor from the boiling water penetrated the contents, sterilizing them. Camp Hospital #52, Le Mans (Sarthe), France, January 7, 1919. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/02/10).
Date 10 February 2017, 10:45
Source LC-Lot-8333-4
Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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