Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Boil Your Drinking Water. [ARTICLE]

Boil Your Drinking Water.

The Washington Star publishes a letter from Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who recommends shat all water for drinking purposes, unless known to be pure, be boiled a half hour. He related his experience with it (hiring :he Philadelphia Exposition, and says that tie believes this course would have averted he epidemic at Plymouth, Pa.