CLIMATE AND


HEAL TH,


writer may undertake to put upon record, at some future
time, if they can be gathered up in proper professional
form.
 "As to the result, however, of the plan adopted by
most persons of spending a few weeks or months in Flori-
da, and especially of deferring their departure from in-
hospitable climates for a winter residence in this more
genial region, until they have been subjected to an at-
tack of cold 'or bronchitis, as the result of the inclem-
ent weather of the early winter, and then returning
in the months of spring, when the climatic changes are
greater and more trying than at any other period of
the year, I have nothing favorable to say, and 'believe
that the only fair test of the influences of the climate can
be realized by spending the entire cold season, say from
the first of November to the last of May, or by residing
there the entire year in some readily-found locality free
from malaria.
 "And, now that the wonderful success of semi-tropical
fruit-culture is established beyond controversy, and a most
pleasant, profitable, and suitable occupation is found, even
for the invalid, who is not entirely disabled, and with the
admirable attractions afforded by the abounding game for
hunting, and the charming small lakes teeming with fish for
boating and angling, and with the opportunity to almost
literally live out-doors (the desideratum for the consump-
tive invalid), with something constantly to interest, and
with no time hanging heavily upon the hands or for brood-
ing over disabilities, it would seem that a very bonanza of
health, pleasure, and wealth, even for the invalids, has been
found.
 "After visiting Florida a number of times, and regarding


the whole State as more or less favorable in the cli
advantages offered, I would state that these are com
to a greater degree than in any other accessible an
proved section, in that portion of the peninsula kno"
South Florida, and especially in the county of Or
with parallel and more southern counties to the reg
Tampa upon the Gulf-coast, extending far into the int
embracing hill and dale and large bodies of rolling, ma
ine, oak, and magnolia forests, and many beautiful,
ling lakes, which, in that region where evaporation
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