Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — Germs Survive Half a Century. [ARTICLE]

Germs Survive Half a Century.

Fifty years ago a well in Stelnerville, Belmont County, 0., was closed for the reason that it was contaminated with typhoid germs. Recently it was reopened and the water used, and although the well was made deeper thafi formerly the germs had remained and a fever epidemic was the result. The well has again been closed.