Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1879 — Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.

All influences which depress the vital powers and vitiate the fluids of the body tend to promote the development and spread of these diseases. Among these the most common and powerful are -impure air aiuMmpure water. Because of this, and as a means of lessening the danger of contracting almost all other diseases, the following precautions should always bo taken, but more particularly during the prevalence of such diseases as we are considering: • • 1. The ground under and around the house should be well drained. 2. No vegetable or animal matter sho Id be allowed to decompose on the surface of the ground pear the house. 8. Your whole house, especially its sleeping rooms, should be well ventilated. 4» Your cellar should be dry and well ventilated; it should frequently bo whitewashed, and always kept clear of decomposing vegetables or other substances. ’ s*Jifo cessppol should be allowed near tjre‘ house. If there be one, it should be thoroughly and frequently disinfected with sulphate of iron (copEeras). 6. Your house drains should e looked to with scrupulous care, to see that they Arc well trapped, kept clear, and ventilated into the open air. 7. Be sure that your drinking water is not contaminated by surface drainage, nor by leakage from tho drain, gas pipe, sewer, cesspool, or vault. By the observance "B%,these simple rules these epidemic diseases may be almost entirely kept at bay, or if contracted, be easily brought under subjection. Experience shows that the individual health is chiefly within each one’s own control. Aud one chief factor in securing It is to keep the house and all surroundings in a state of perfect cleanliness. —Christian at Wortc. . It is expected that the new Eddystono light-house will be completed in about four years, and will coct something short of SBOO,OOO. The height of the tower will be 182 feet, ana the light will rise 130 feet abbvo the highest spring tide. > —— A tocno lady of Now Fairfield, Gonn., lastr year made three-quarters o! a lon' of "butter And disposed of it herself. —Cincinnati Oazitte. Thunder, what an eater. —Boston Pott.