CLIMATE AND


HEAL TH.


land and France. However objectionable easterly winds
may be in other sections, in this evergreen State they are
the opposite.
 Precipitation of moisture, in the form of snow and
rain, is a subject worth consideration by the invalid. In
the North and Northwest the presence of snow renders the
taking of exercise a laborious and unpleasant occupation;
and when it melts, and assumes the form of slush, walking
entails the risk of wet feet, colds, and inflammatory affec-
tions of the lungs. In Florida, the winter is the dry sea-


son, and rains are infrequent. Owing to the character of
the soil in a majority of places, the rain is absorbed as
rapidly as it falls, and within a few minutes after a shower
an invalid can walk out without incurring the danger of
wetting the soles of his shoes.
 "One of the most important factors of climate in the
treatment of disease, and more especially affections of the
respiratory organs, is a dry climate; and, under the bare
supposition that this or that is a dry climate, invalids are
frequently consigned to an unsuitable locality. By some
peculiar process of reasoning, the masses have arrived at
the conclusion that all cold or elevated localities possess
dry climates. But an unprejudiced examination of the sub-
ject will soon dispel the illusion. .


MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY.


LOCALITY.


Mentone and Cannes.....
Nassau, New Providence..
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Brcckenridge, Minnesota..
Duluth, Minnesota.......
St. Paul, Minnesota......
Punta Rassa, Florida.....
Key West, Florida.......
Jacksonville, Florida.....
Augusta, Georgia........
Bismarck, Dakota.......
Boston, Massachusetts....


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