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Dangers in Snow Water

December 30th, 2008 at 5:40 pm » Comments (2)

FleasFleas.—There are one hundred varieties of this pest which live on dogs, cats, birds, squirrels, rats, mice, etc. It has been proven that fleas carry the germs of Bubonic Plague, which has caused as high as 113 deaths in 119 cases during an epidemic. The disease was found to be spread by means of rats, [...]



Fever Germs in Ice

December 29th, 2008 at 5:39 pm » Comments (0)

Fever Germs in Ice.  — in Connecticut, the Board of Health informs us that, in several instances, attention has been drawn to sewage contaminated ponds with ice houses upon their borders, and that several isolated cases of typhoid fever, and one death, from the free use of the ice blue by sewage, have been recorded [...]