The use of cylinder model vacuum cleaners
- 1 June 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 49 (4) , 497-506
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400066808
Abstract
Cylinder-model vacuum cleaners cause no bacterial contamination of the air, whereas even on oiled floors domestic brooms caused statistically significant contamination of the air when compared with a vacuum cleaner.The Hoover model 402 was the only machine tested whose bag is never removed, a theoretical as well as a practical advantage. Domestic brooms can destroy an otherwise efficient barrier nursing system and should bo avoided in hospital wards.Keywords
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