At the entrances to hospitals and government buildings in the city stand buckets for people to wash their hands and soles of their shoes with chlorine bleach.

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Banish mites and mold by washing bedding in 130-degree water weekly and use a chlorine-bleach solution to keep fungus at bay in the bathroom.

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Five entrepreneurs founded the Electro-Alkaline Company in 1913 by creating a bleach product with chlorine and sodium hydroxide as its main ingredients.

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