Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Not Due to American Fruits. [ARTICLE]

Not Due to American Fruits.

The recent alarming mortality among the French soldiers in the garrison at Vitre, which was first ascribed to the use of damaged canned fruit from the United States, turned out to be due to tetanus or cerebro spinal fever resulting from overcrowding.