CLIMATE AND


HEALTH.


LOCALITY.


Atlantic City, New Jet
Norfolk, Virginia....
St. Louis, Missouri...
Cheyenne, Wyoming..
Denver, Colorado....
Colorado Springs..:...
Florida Peninsula....


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Mean
monthly
range.

41-00
44-0
58-0
61*5
60-5
63-5
29*7


Range of
monthly
means.

44-10
40*7
57*4
48*9
53*7
47-7
19-2


Annual
means.

49*7
57*3
54-2
43-6
49"2
46*8
73-4


Annual
range.

 89.5
 89-5
 117-0
 136*0
 1310
 123-0
* 50-0


 In forming an opinion regarding climates, many fac-
tors must be considered, and altitude is of less importance
than temperature, prevailing winds, dry soil, and a low
mean relative humidity. 'With regard to the temperature
of the air, it is absolutely certain,' says Professor Buhl, 'that
it is not the mean temperature of a place which regulates
the frequency of catarrh or phthisis, but only the larger,
sudden, and oft-recurridg vacillations of temperature, which
the compensatory power of our body is unable to resist.
Therefore the temperature of the air and its rapid vacilla-
tions must be regarded as exciting causes of inflammatory
phthisis.' Atmospheric changes in the North and West
are sudden and great; but in Florida they are infrequent


and not extreme.
occur, but their v:
over one, two, or t
can take exercise
Owing to the low
ice, and the warm


At
isits
three
out-
level
th o


times, what are called 'cold snaps'
are infrequent, and they seldom last
days ; and at any time the invalid
of-doors in the middle of the day.
I of the land, the absence of snow and
F the soil for a long distance to the


north and west of this State, and the influence of the winds
from the Gulf, the northerly and westerly winds are modi-
fied and robbed of their harshness and refrigerating effects
before they reach Florida, and as a consequence they do not
exert the same injurious influence that they do at points
to the north and west of this State. In reply to my circu-
lar letter, that accomplished observer and meteorologist,
Dr. Baldwin, who has been in practice in this city for over
forty years, remarks : 'Stormy weather here is compara-
tively rare, sustaining a proportion of about one storm here
to ten at the North and Northwest. The air here is re-
markable for its purity, and the temperature renders it pos-