Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1883 — Health and Underdrawing. [ARTICLE]

Health and Underdrawing.

It gives me pleasure, also, to say that the practice of underdraining the soil has, in this State, been found so greatly to increase its productiveness that, in proportion to the area of the State, it is said that we have more underdrained soil that any of the States. Underdrainage has everywhere' been followed by a great lessening of sickness, and intermittent fever, once so common, has become so rare that it is a good less prevalent than in some of the oldest of the States. Our laws relating to drainage have been recently much iniproved, and a disposition to relieve the soil in every portion of the State of all excess of moisture tending to lessen its productiveness and to bijin g on sickness is everywhere evident;— Governor Porter, of Indiana. Thebe are in the German empire 17,591 physicians and 4,457 apothecaries.