Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — SMALLPOX DISTRIBUTORS. [ARTICLE]

SMALLPOX DISTRIBUTORS.

How the Germs Are Nurtured and the Disease la Spread. It would seem that people will never learn to be careful. The recent alarming spread of that dire epidemic, smallpox, throughout different sections of the country has been traced by physicians and sanitarians in many Instances directly to the moldy and rotting layers of paper and paste which cover the walls of many houses. The practice of laying layer after layer of paper on a wall, using common flour paste, is especially calculated to create homes for disease germs. Feople could not do more to effect such a result if they tried. The rotting vegetable matter affords caves from which are ready to dart forth the infection at every opportunity. There is no excuse for this practice, as walls and ceilings can be coated with a pure, cleanly and sanitary material like Alabastlne, for instance, at no greater expense. Alabastine is a rock-base cement, which Incorporates itself with the wall or celling. It is easily applied, comes ready to mix with cold water, requires no washing or scraping before renewing or retinting, is beautiful, long-lasting and safe. For walls that have been Infected, nothing is equal to Alabastine as a disinfectant to render them pure and clean and the rooms once more habitable.