Diagram of Serbian barrel disinfection device
Serbian barrel delousers, used in 1916 by the 2nd Australian Sanitary Section to kill lice in uniforms, blankets and so on.

A Serbian barrel is a sterilization device used for sterilizing clothes. It consists of a wooden or metal barrel or other container which is then heated to disinfect items hung inside it by moist heat sterilization.[1][2]

The Serbian barrel was pioneered by the British surgeon William Hunter during the 1915 typhus and relapsing fever epidemic in Serbia.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ U. S. Army Medical Service (1931). The Army Medical Bulletin. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 875.
  2. ↑ United States War Department (1944). Fumigation and Bath Company: War Department Technical Manual TM 10-645. p. 27.
  3. ↑ Eddie, Graeme D. (20 May 2015). "William Hunter (1861-1937) & the Order of St. Sava | Untold Stories". libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  4. ↑ Hunter, William (1918). "New Methods Of Disinfection For The Prevention And Arrest Of Lice-Borne Diseases (Typhus, Relapsing, And Trench Fevers)". The British Medical Journal. 2 (3008): 198–201. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20310811.


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