Better Sanitary Arrangements Prevent Disease

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 29.

Better Sanitary Arrangements Prevent Disease

BETTER sanitary arrangements would do much toward preventing the death of thousands of children under one year of age in our large cities from preventable diseases in one summer. In a tenement house in Boston, where diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, and measles ravaged, traps were put under the sinks in December, and there has not been a case of sickness since.