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recently sent a patient to Atlanta,
with the injunction to “live there as,
after investigating the climates of the
United States he had come to the con
clusion that it had the best climate in
the United States.”
Having shown that Atlanta has an
equable temperature; a small annual
and daily range; relative humidity be
tween the extremes; a comparatively
small degree of cloudiness and rain-fall
semi-tropical, the writer feels that the
factors show a good sum on the side of
salubrity.
The full force in mercantile and me
chanical or manufacturing establish
ments can work, without discomfort,
the entire year. With Atlanta’s low
summer temperature and healtnfulness,
it offers inducements to northern man
ufacturers who may desire proximity
to cheap pig iron of superior quality,
and forests of hard wood convenient.
To their laborers they can say, that
the saving in fuel and by wearing
thinner clothing than in the North are
equivalent to an advance of 20 per
cent, on wages.
ADAPTATION OF THE CLIMATE TO DIS
EASE.
The writer is now brought to the di
rect consideration of the diseases to
which the climate is remediable. Bron
chial Catarrh, including chronic Bron
chitis, whether the expectoration is
scant or profuse, Laryngeal and
Pharyngeal Catarrhs, especially those
cases complicated with aural troubles,
so common and intractable in the
North, are readily cured. To the ar
my of consumptives Atlanta, and the
region tributary to it, offer asylums.
The consumptive may choose an ele
vation of from l,10(> feet at Atlanta,
to 3,000 on the Blue Ridge mountains,
north of there.
Patients, more than physicians, are
generally blamable for not promptly
seeking a change of climate, upon the
discovery that a lung has become tub
erculased.
Why persons cannot realize that the
same causes that produce an affection
will aggravate it, and for that reason
they should early abandon home for a
suitable climate, is enigmatical. Ear
ly changes are curative in a large pro
portion of cases. After softening has
progressed the proportion of recoveries
is small. Life is, however, prolonged
by a change, even then. Medical lit
erature contains reliable accounts of
cures after cavities have formed. Few
persons have the perseverance to fol
low out such a hygienic regimen as is
absolutely indispensible to a cure.
Without which cure is impossible.
And where health is being restored, it
is always the better part of wisdom to
remain and establish a new home.
Northern Georgia is favorable to re
covery from Catarrh of the Apex,
Chronic Pneumonia, Caseous Phthisis,
if destruction of tissue is not so advan
ced as to forbid active and persistent
out-door life. Its climate is especially
conducive to the cure of Catarrhal
Pneumonia and Fibroid Phthisis,
Haemoptysis, Catarrh of the Bladder,
Dyspepsia, Insomnia, Nervous affec
tions and Chlorosis. Persons broken
down by disease or overwork will soon
gain strength and spirits by a residence
in Atlanta or oue of its numerous sub
urbs.
The general healthfulness of a region
is popularly measured by the ratio of
deaths from consumption. Folks die
everywhere. If they do not die from
consumption in sections of the low
country, in great numbers, the pro
portion dying from malaria may be as
great as from consumption in some re
gions of the North. In north Georgia
the mean is struck in both diseases.
A study of the accompanying mortali
ty tables, collated from the reports of
the Census of 1880, may prove to be
interesting.
Prof. Henry T. Campbell, of Au
gusta, Georgia, ex-President of the
American Medical Association, recent
ly gave the writer abundant informa
tion to show that the region in and
about Augusta has been preventive of
the development of consumption in
persons whose progenitors died of the
disease, contracted in the North. Re
search in relation to the region about
Atlanta goes to prove that a like pro
phylaxis prevails there.
There are now living in Atlanta a
mother and two adult sons, sole survi
vors of a family of ten. The husband
of the lady, three sons and three
daughters died of consumption. The
mother and the remaining sons moved
to Atlanta years ago to escape the fate
of the other members of the family.
The sons had premonitory symptoms ol
consumption at their native place.
The mother had hemorrhages. The
tendency to which has been entirely
overcome by her residence in Atlanta.
Several nieces of the head of the
family died of consumption. The gen
tlemen do not wish their names pub
lished, but should any persons be curi
ous to have them verify these state
ments the writer will furnish their
names. Other testimony in support of
the preventive properties of the cli
mate of Georgia in persons of the con
sumptive type is attainable.
To those, North or South, in whose
families there is a tendency to con
sumption, Georgia offers a home where
its development would be prevented.
Dr. Richards, referring to a change
of climate for the aged, quotes Dr.
Weber as follows: ‘ ‘Low temperature,
cold winds, rapidly occurring changes
of weather and a low degree of relative
humidity are badly borne. High al
titude stations are to be avoided at all
seasons, but in summer mountain re
sorts of moderate elevation may be cho
sen.
Any person in the primary stage
of consumption, who will live in the
neighborhood of Atlanta, keep out of
billiard rooms, hotel-offices and other
places with vitiated and confined air,
ride horse-back, or what is even bet
ter, —walk, sleep in a second story,
well ventilated, sunny room, eat solid,
substantial food, avoid stimulants (un
less prescribed by a physician) and ex
cesses of any kind, bathe frequently
and seek refined and cheerful society
will recover health.
A material advantage in choosing
the vicinity of a large city as a place
of resort is that, men who have form
ed business habits are thrown into a
ousiness atmosphere. Many opportu
nities for investment are presented, so
that, as health is regained one can find
profitable employment for mind and
capital.
Ratio of deaths from Malarial Fever
in 100,000 of Population.
City of Atlanta, lO. ( White population.)
Northern Georgia, 31. “
Illinois, 33.
Kentucky, 43. “
Indiana, 44.
Kansas, 72.
Missouri, <■" 72.
All persons in Illinois, lowa, Wis
consin, Minnesota or eastern Missouri,
who intend going south, or expect to
ship freight south, should call on or
write to Thos. McGill, General North
western Agent, Western & Atlantic
Railroad and Associated Roads, at 79
Clark St., Chicago, 111.
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Persons in the Northwest who desire
information about passenger rates,
schedules, etc., to Atlanta, Florida, I
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*ln Northern Georgia there is a
territory three-fourths the size of the
State of Massachusetts, nearly as
thickly settled as is middle Virginia
and the greater part of Illinois, with a
and other points in the southeast, should
call on or W’rite to J. T. Hosford, Gen
eral Traveling Passenger Agent, West
ern & Atlantic and Associated Roads,
at 79 Clark St., Chicago, 111.
Considering its size, Marietta is one
of the choicest centres of culture and
refinement of any city in the South.
We may properly term her, “Little
Paris,” as she merits the title.
TJie Kennesaw Royte always ahead,
death rate from consumption of only
70 per 100,000 of white population,
and a mortality of only 16 per 100,000
from malarial fevers.
This paper would be incomplete
were the interests of the Army of In
nocents neglected. There follows a ta
ble showing the proportion of deaths
among children under five years of age
in 100,000 of living population, as
shown by the report of the Census of
1880.
SPATES. Male. Female
Northern Georgia, *3,200 2,840
Maine, 3,410 3,275
lowa, 3,630 3,020
Minnesota 3JOO 3,020
Kentucky, *3,850 3,470
Michigan 3 } 870 3,280
Ohio, 4,130 3,630
New Hamphire, 4,190 3,420
Coast of California, 4,130 3,720
Pennsylvania, 4,750
Kansas, 4,000 4.490
Indiana, 5,020 4,460
Illinois, 5,040 4,350
Missouri, 5.420 4,730
New Jersey, 5,590 4,830
Plains of Colorado 6,190 4,800
Maryland, *6,300 5,410
New York, 6,410 5,540
Massachusetts, 6,960 5,980
CITIES.
San Francisco, Cal 7,480 6,270
New Orleans, La *7,740 6,510
Philadelphia, Pa 7,760 7,090
Pittsburg, Pa 7,490 7,230
Cleveland, O 8,030 7,230
Cincinnati, 0"... 9,150 7,780
Brooklyn, N. Y 9,370 8,230
St. Louis, Mo 9,440 8,120
Baltimore, Md *10,210 8,870
Boston, Mass 10,239 8,490
New York City 11,580 9,920
Note. —Where the ratio is given
for States in which the ratio for any of
the cities is given the mortality for
those States is exclusive of that in the
cities. Sums with the asterisk (*) are
for white population only.
Passengers leaving Cincinnati in the
sleeping cars on the 8:10 p. m. train
and coming via Western & Atlantic
Railroad, have only one change of cars,
and that at dinner-time the next day
in the Union Depot, Atlanta, for
Grovetown, Augusta, Aiken and
Charleston.
Marietta is the sanitarium of North
Georgia.
ESTABLISHED 1888.
KELLY & DAVENPORT,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
WHISKIES TOBACCOS & CIGARS,
833 Market and 13 & 15 W. Ninth Streets,
Oiiattanooga, Tenn.
OUR SPECIALTY:
200 Barrels Four-year-old
Sour Mash Corn Whisky,
AT $2 PER GALLON.
Write for prices on our pure old
Liquors, etc.
KELLY & DAVENPORT,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
BOARD.
MARIETTA, CA.,
Forty-five minutes ride from Atlanta on the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad with six trains each
way daily. The beautiful site called
“THE HEDGES.”
There are a number of fine rooms in the main
building and adjoining cottages, with large and
ovely grounds, also a free livery for the exclu
sive use of guests. Situated on Powder Springs
street, within three minutes drive or ten minutes
walk of railroad depot, the churches «gid shop
ping and in full view of the Kennesaw Mountains.
Table service strictly first-class.
For terms apply to
JAMES A. LAFITTE,
(IRJ n ■' tywager,
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