Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — Danger in the Kerosene Lamp. [ARTICLE]

Danger in the Kerosene Lamp.

Who would suppose that a turneddown kerosene lamp would breed diphtheria? We are all accustomed to the disagreeable fumes arising from this cause; and when New York was suffering from an epidemic of diphtheria, the Board of Health decided that Its presence was 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 kindness on the part of an 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 gM, to which the strongest lungs cannot safely be exposed.