Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1875 — Mortality by Preventable Disease. [ARTICLE]

Mortality by Preventable Disease.

Self-preservation is the first law of our nature; but it is a law which we ignorantly and constantly disregard in laying our life and health at the mercy of the foul conditions of life prevailing among our neighbors. We roll up our eyes and stand aghast when contemplating the horrors of warp yet the mortality of war is trifling as compared with the mortality by preventable disease. England, in twentv-two years of continuous war, lost 79,700 lives ; in one year of chblera she lost 144,860 lives We look idly on and see our population decimated by an infant mortality so great that its like among calves and colts would appal the farmer, and set the whole community energetically at work to discover a remedy .—George E. TF«ring, Jr., in Atlantic Monthly for September. _ - -—Qne of the best dressings for old sores is perfectly dry, clean earth; dress them every day, washing clean and applying a fresh poultice ol dry dust. —Kindergartens are being established in many of our Western towns and cities