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

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).