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WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

April 1, 1881

 

            In the area back of one of the stores in this city, besides the usual straw, chips and other winter accumulations, there are a lot of frozen potatoes, dead cats, cans and maybe a corpse or two will be found after a general thaw out.  And there are lots of back yards nearly or quite as bad as the one alluded to.  Diphtheria and other pestilence lurks in these accumulations of filth, and if we would escape sickness and death, one of the first things to be done is to clean up these places.  And it should be done at the earliest possible time – before the leachings from it get into the wells and the hot sun starts decomposition.