Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — Danger in the Kerosene Lamp. [ARTICLE]

Danger in the Kerosene Lamp.

Who would suppose that a turned down kerosene lamp would breed diphtheria? We art- all accustomed to the disagreeable fumes arising from this cause; and when New York was suffer. Ing from an epidemic of diphtheria, the Board of Health decided that its presence WHS to be attributed to the fumes of a kerosene lamp turned down low more than to any other single cause. Whether or not this be so, it certainly Is a mistaken kindnees on the part of nn Indulgent mother to allow a lamp to remain in a child's bedroom with the flame turned down. A turned-down kerosene lamp is a magazine of deadly gas, to which the strongest lungs cannot safely be exposed.