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POVERTY OF BACTERIA

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 2.

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POVERTY OF BACTERIA.

ANALYSIS of the air, water, and soil of Spitzbergen has brought to light the extraordinary poverty of these regions in bacteria. While the air of the streets of Paris contains on an average 51,000 bacteria per cubic meter, that of the Arctic Sea contains only three. As to the water of Spitzbergen, not only is it devoid of any pathogenic micro-organisms whatever, but all bacilli are absent.—Popular Science News.