Excerpt from Ohio University Bulletin, Vol. 2: December, 1894 There seems to be an impression abroad that clear looking ice must necessarily be pure; but here, again, the public is in error, and so dense is the ignorance upon this point that danger signals should be thrown out and the people warned against the careless practices in vogue. That ice is a medium through which disease and death may be conveyed is evidenced by the fact that bacteria are found to thrive in vast numbers in the ordinary ice-em ployed for domestic purposes. An elabo rate series of investigations were conduct ed in Berlin, by Dr. C. Frankel, upon the lake-ice supplied by one of the companies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.