The Stability to Water Leaching of Some Textile Fungicides Applied to Unlined Flax Forestry Fire Hose

Among the fabrics which, because of the circumstances of their use, would appear to be exposed to severe conditions of microbiological attack, must be numbered the unlined flax hose used by the forestry fire-prevention services of the federal and provincial governments in Canada, as well as by many pulp and paper companies. Large quantities of this hose are used, the annual replacement being approximately 3 million feet. Much of the hose is used under conditions which