Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — Boil Your Drinking Water. [ARTICLE]

Boil Your Drinking Water.

The Washington Star publishes a letter from Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who recommends that all water for drinking purposes, unless known to be pure, be boiled a half hour. He related his experience with it during the Philadelphia Exposition, and says that he believes.this course would have averted the epidemic at Plymouth, Pa.