Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1906 — TYPHOID FEVER. [ARTICLE]

TYPHOID FEVER.

At present there are two cases in the city of that very rare disease —for Rensselaer —typhoid fever, Korah Parker at the south end of Scott street, and the young son of The Democrat editor on South Division street. Parkers used city water and being at the end of a main and where little water was used, it is probable that the water became stagnant and unfit for use, no doubt causing his sickness. In the latter case water from a drilled well —water that we have always thought was extra pure —has been used, and we cannot believe that the sickness of our boy was caused from impure water, but from some unknown source. Both patients are apparently getting along as well as can be expected at this writing and it is hoped they will folly recover.