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burnie, Oakland Hall, L. S. Cox’s
boarding house and Mrs. J. H. El
liott’s are all highly commended.
One of the attractions, is a run up
the Marietta & North Georgia R. R.,
to the North Carolina line, through a
country picturesque enough for the
painter or poet, romantic enough f>r
the school-girl, full of delightful sur
prises to the tourist, with fish and game
for the sportsman and health for the
invalid. Such a wilderness of water
falls, cascades, mountains, valleys,
cliffs, glens and tablelands, is seldom
found.
There are six passenger trains, each
way, on which the sojourner in Mari
etta may visit Atlanta.
From records of the United States
signal service observers, the writer has
gathered data relating to the climate
of the region about Atlanta. In ev
ery instance, unless otherwise stated,
the observations have extended over a
period of not less than five consecutive
years.
TEMPERATURE.
Atlanta has a low average of high
tempeiature ; a medium average of low
temperature, and a small range, or dif
ference, between high and low temper
atures. It has not an equable climate
in the sense that the Pacific, lower At
lantic and Gulf coasts have. On the
other band, it has no extremes of tem
perature either way. A person visit
ing Atlanta in the summer need not
expect a temperature of over 95.5° F.,
which has only been reached once in
seven years observation. If in the
winter, he would not be likely to ex-
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perience a lower temperature than one
and one-half degiees below zero, which
was the lowest recorded during the
winter of 1885-6 —the coldest since
1835. The extreme highest tempera
ture recorded at Atlanta (97.5°) is
2.6 degrees below that at St. Paul.
Minn., (eleven degrees farther north,)
while the extreme lowest at St. Paul
is 38.5° below the minimum at At
lanta. The yearly range of tempera
ture at Atlanta, between the mean
highest and lowest, is 84.4°, while at
St. Paul it is 132.3°.
121 Paso, Texas, has an average of
maximum temperature of 91 degrees
for May; 100.7 June, 105.8 July,
98.4 August and 88.8 for September,
or 4.4 higher for this autumn month
than is the average maximum temper
ature of the three summer months at
Atlanta.
The following table gives the aver
age highest and lowest temperatures
and the range between them for sev
eral stations where observations have
been made by signal service observers;
in no instance for a period of less than
five consecutive years : *
Stations. Summer Winter Range.
Atlanta, Ga ..... 94.7° 10.3° 84.4°
New Orleans, La. 96.5 23.8 'f-'
Saint Paul, Minn. 97.1 30.2 13..3
Los Angeles, Cal. 97.1 32.0 65.1
Chicago 111 .... 98.3° —15.2 113.5
Boston Mass.... 98.6° —JO.2° 120.3°
Denver C 010.... 102.1° -26.1° 128.2°
Cincinnati, 0.... 100.8° -4.1° 104.9°
Charleston, S. C. . 100.5 21.1 •*4
Jacksonville, Fla. 104.5 24.1
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below zero.
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The summer climate of Atlanta has
heretofore attracted many visitors from
the cities in the low lands.
The following table of the mean
seasonal temperature at several cities
in southern States is presented for con
sideration : -
DAILY RANGE OF TEMPERATURE AT SEV-
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Memphis, Tenn. 61.4 79.5 60.6 42.8 6'.1 68.a
Montgomery. Ala 65.3 8.98 65.2 50.4 6 >.6 68.8
Mobile, Ala .' 67.2 81.4 67.6 52.6'67,1 74.6
Savannah, Ga 66.5 81.3 *»6.8 52.7)67.9 71.6
New Orleans, La 68.9 81.9 69.7 55.9(69.2 71.2
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In Wood’s Reference Hand Book
of the medical sciences (a master-piece
of book-making, valuable to intelli
gent laymen and necesary to well-read
physicians,) Dr. Huntington Richards
thus refers to the influence of daily
range of temperature:
“The importance to the invalid of
this feature of climate cannot be over-
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estimated, and many untoward results
and accidents are frequently attributa
ble to its neglect. * * *
For mist persons a variability indi
cated by an average nycthermal [from
day to nitdit] range of about 10 or 15
degrees Farenheit may be considered
as conducive to health.”
The diurnal changes at Atlanta are
a fraction above the maximum limit
alluded to by Dr. Richards. But no
climate combines all of the good char
acteristics of a perfect climate. Nor
is such probably to be found on earth.
Still, the writer believes it is more near
ly approximated at Atlanta than any
where else in our country of change
ableness of seasonal temperature.
STA TIONS. Spring; Su’mcr I Autumn Winter
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At!:ini:i. I 18.0° 15.4° 15.7° 15.7°
Saint Paul, Minn.l 21.3° 19.7° 18.5° 19.7°
Denver, Col.. ' 23.2° 24.4° 24.7° 22.0°
Los An-zeles, Cal.i 32.<1° 32.4° 27.0° 26 3°
El Paso, Tex i 23.2° 25,1° 21.7° 21.8°
In this connection, Dr. Richards is
again quoted:
“Thus Denver at 5,200 feet altitude
shews an average daily range of 30°*
F., and even with this difference (lew
but seldom forms. Though this latter
fact will indicate a low relative hu
midity of the air, there can be but lit
tle doubt such extreme and sudden
changes must affect persons other than
the most robust.”
RELATIVE HUMIDITY.
Dr. Richards says : “It becomes a
matter for careful study to determine
wherein lies the happy mean between
dry climates, with great daily range,
and moist climates, with small daily
range of temperature. In a general
way, it may be said that between the
two extremes lie the conditions most
favorable to health.
Alexander H. Stephens once said,
(while watering his horse, near where
the Union Depot now stands, when At
lanta had but a few hundred inhabi
tants.) “This is the healthiest spot
on earth.”
To-day there stands a large city on
the spot referred to, with an annual
death-rate among the whites of only
13 per thousand. This is the more re
markable in view of the fact that the
region of country having the smallest
number of deaths among the whites in
the United States, according to the
census of 1880, has a ratio of 11.25
per thousand. The death rate among
the whites in the North Atlantic Coast
Region (U. S. Census Divison,) ex
tending from New York to Washing
i ton, D. C., is 20.5 per thousand.
Moisture, when associated with cold,
is trying to others than the most ro
bust, by season of exhausting the bod-
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ily heat. Excessive humidity, when
associated with warmth, is on the oth
er hand, relaxing to the system en
feebled by disease, and enervating to
all. Atlanta has a mean winter tem
perature of 46.4°, wiih an average
relative humidity of 68.8 (four years
observation,) while Saint Paul, Minn.,
has mean winter temperature of 17.4°,
with an average humidity of 72.3°, or
a trifle less humidity than has Jack
sonville, Florida, (72.6) with its high
mean winter temperature of 56.6°.
Newport, R. 1., has recently become
a claimant for public favor as a winter
resort for Consumptives. The Census
shows that the death rate from Con
sumption is 246 per 100,000 for the
state, as a whole; 207 in Newport
county; 202 in the state, excluding the
city of Providence and Newport coun
ty. A region, having as large a ratio
of deaths from Consumption as is
shown by the above figures, cannot ap
pear to an unprejudiced mind to be a
highly favored region for recovery
from the disease.
In support of the advocates of cold
moist stations, the Valley of Daros,
Switzerland, has been growing in favor
among European physicians, up to last
reports, as a winter resort for consump
tives. There the relative humidity is
84.4 for five months of the year, in
cluding the three winter months. How
ever, the Valley of Daros is at an eleva
tion of over 5,000 feet above Atlantic
City, with a mean winter temperature
*From the only data obtainable by the
writer, the mean diurnal range is as given
in the foregoing table.
