FACE MASKS IN INFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT

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The use of face masks by those whose duties necessitate their coming in contact with cases of respiratory infection has now become general. The object of such masks is twofold: first, to protect the wearer against infectious material from the respiratory passages of the patient, and second, to protect the patient from such material as the attendant may himself carry in his mouth and nose. The types of masks worn, however, have been variable, and the efficiency of many of these types as barriers to the transmission of bacteria is certainly open to question. We have therefore undertaken experiments with some of the commoner types of masks in order to prove their efficiency or nonefficiency in preventing the dissemination of infectious material from the mouth during the acts of speaking or coughing. Our first object was to determine, by means of agar plates exposed at different distances from an observer,

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