Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — Hotel Fever. [ARTICLE]

Hotel Fever.

It is remarkable how large a number of families return year after year to this city or other cities from their summer resorts, with traces of fever a]bout them. With some it seems merely a low malarial fever, and with others a pronounced typhoid; in some cases the poison appears in diphtheria,%r in such a condition of system that pneumonia easily sets in. The general cause, of course, is easily known. It is the crowding of many human beings in a locality where the drainage facilities w r ere arranged for only a few. The healthiest mountain-site and the purest air in such circumstances are no safeguard. In fact, the great heat of the noonday sun in the mountains will often occasion a more rapid fermentation of decaying vegetable and animal matter than occurs in a city. Moreover, the guests of mountain inns sleep in smaller and less -ventilated apartments than they do at home, and are consequently more exposed to any poisonous gases which may arise. In fact, most people who spend the summer in the mountains would find themselves better off in camp or tents than in the small rooms of hotels. This evil of “hotel fever” has become so general, and is followed by such disastrous effects among our families of means, that it was even discussed at some length in the recent Public Health Congress at Baltimore.—Newjif ork Times. —Louisville lias been amused by a row in a fashionable boarding-house. A boarder refused to either pay liis hill or go away until the month for which he had bargained had expired; The landlady was told by the lawyers that the money was not legally clue until the end of the month, and that she must fulfill her part of the contract before she could sue him. She next took the case into her own hands, put damp sheets on liis bed, fed hipi on the poorest Viands, and put a whining puppy in, the room next to his. He retreated after three days of endurance.