Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — Sources of Malarial Disease. [ARTICLE]

Sources of Malarial Disease.

The hot weather should remind all that we are approaching the season of malarial fevers, and want 'them to look well to their cellars, barns, pens and outhouses and see that everything that would likely emit poisonous gases under the hot rays of the sun is removed. A great deal of sickness and trouble might be saved if all w'ould carefully remove everything likely to decay and emitthis poison. Every part of the premises should be looked after ih this respect# It has been shown also that sections tboroughly uiidci'drained aro most healthy. This has 'been most [ thoroughly demonstrated to be true in many sections of our own state. Soils having a bard olay subsoil hold water just beneath the surface till it becomes stagnant, and emits malaria during the; warm season. The grounds about the house, as well us upon the lariat

generally should bo undordraihed, lor health as well as for greiiter productioh. Thousands of dollars in doctors’ bills and medicines may thus annually be saved by a liberal uso of drain tile and the spade. There ..Til now no time to spare in cleaning up and guarding against the poisons generated by the beat and decaying matter about ihc premises generally. These precautions are too frequently neglected, and the penalty is always inevitable.—lndiana Farmef. Mrs. Emma Molloy of Indiana was called upon by thepresident to tell of thh progress of sufFrage in the west. In response Mrs. Molloy spoko of the action of the western women regarding the great temperance question. The address was indescribably powerful. It is safe to say that such a keen, convincing, witty, sarcastic speech has never bofore been heard from a woman’s lips in this city. Mrs. Molloy drew terribly realistic pictures of the cursed, withering effects of intemperance and unlicensed traffic in liquor in the cities at the west. She argued that, as intemperance was wholly wrong, and as men were elected to office by the influence of the rumsellers’ votes, no improvement could be expected until women possessed the power to cast the ballot, better days would dawn upo». Lhe land. The speech held the olosest attention of the audience throughout its delivery.— Boston(Mass.) Advertiser.