Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — Roman Fever. [ARTICLE]

Roman Fever.

Rr.mo, the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and center around which the Homan Catholic Church revo ves, has the character, not undeserved, of being the most unhealthy of the capitals of Europe. Munich has always tho specter of typhoid fever haunting it, and Stuttgart can by no means show a clean, bill of -health; but in Romo not pnly does fever of one sort or other riot in tho summer, but it also broods in the winter. No sooner does the sun begin to gain power, the floyvers to open and the birds to sing, than those not inured to malaria pack their portmanteaus and depart. Too often visitors to Rome in the winter and early spring carry away with them, if not prostrated on the spot, tho germs of typhoid, and as all the world goes to Home, tho curiosity shop of the world, it is well that the causes of the insalubrity of the city should be well understood, in order that, as far as possible, precautions should be taken against the fever. To remedy the evil lies not in their hands, but in those of the municipality, which is eagerly laboring to make Rome so hideous as to deter travelors from the desire of revis.ting it, and as yet has not done sufficient in the right direction to correct the deadly evil.