Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1907 — THINK RUMMAGE SALE STARTED IT. [ARTICLE]

THINK RUMMAGE SALE STARTED IT.

The health officers here attribute the cases of scarlet fever in Rensselaer to the rummage sales, and it is altogether prpbable that measures will be taken to put a stop to all future sales of this kind. The Florence family, where the disease started and whose every member had it, is said to have bought some six or eight dollars’ worth of clothing, etc., at one of these rummage sales, and it is thought the disease germs, which will live for years, were in some of this clothing. The outbreak of epidemics of contagious in other places has frequently been traced to rummage sales sources, and as a matter of health and public policy they should be prohibited everywhere.