Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — Disease at the Back Door. [ARTICLE]

Disease at the Back Door.

Yes, it is the nasty habit of pitching out of the buck door a pailful and a dipperful, now and then, of greasy water, and a handful of parings and the general waste of the kitchen that breeds f vers and bilious diseases. The waste disappears for the most part in the soil, but that is the key to the mischief. The soil gets! full after a time and ferments, and the hot sun breeds gases which surround and enter the house. This is true not only of the cheaper, poorer houses, and careless families, but well to do, intelligent people have spots behind their housts saturated with slops. In populous towns no amount of supervision can prevent a great deal of filthy evil. But in the country towns slops should be carried out to trees and poured in small quantities here and there as a fertilizer .Trees will take up a large quantity of water and be grateful for it. There must be simply constant intelligence in the disposal of waste. —[Farm Life.