Results obtained with aerosols in the monkey house of the royal zoological society of Ireland, Dublin. (1949–1953)

Summary

1. Aerosols (resorcinol, and hexyl-resorcinol, Aerovap, Ireland) have been used in a closed monkey house over a period of four and a half years.

2. Following the introduction of the apparatus respiratory infections almost disappeared, and there has been no case of tuberculosis.

3. No untoward effects attributable to the use of the Aerosols were observed in general examinations, nor in postmortem examination on two of the animals.