Cellars Breed Foul Diseases

The Jackson Patriot says:

"The newspapers of the city," said a prominent physician Saturday, "can do the people the biggest kind of a service by impressing upon them the urgent necessity for attending to an ordinary sanitary precaution, and doing it right now. I have been expecting a run of typhoid fever, and in my practice it has come. I have had five cases develop within the last four days, and in not one of them can I trace it to the drinking water.

"At some time or other during the spring and summer, half the cellars of the city have been flooded-- some with surface water, some with back-water from sewers. The commonest precaution against serious disease is to look to these cellars. The Windows should be opened, fresh air and sunlight let in and a solution of copperas scattered bout. All that is necessary is to dissolve the copperas in hot water. It costs but little, is effective and is not noticeable through the house. Typhoid fever is an insidious disease and is always more prevalent during a wet season."