001waiTUEsN or


early childhood they live on sweet potatoes


and t


hominy and
hominy, not
that they do


grease, the
always well


not care


melted fat of pork'stirred ib
boiled. This they become a6


for anything better,


mn


although m1


surround


them


almost


everywhere.


This food, a


drink from


the shallow wells, or the dark-colored water of*


sluggish brooks, begets dyspepsia,


or as


they term it,


"bilio


ness."


then


come


"Tutt's


liver


pills,"


or some


cathartic


which


affords


temporary relief.


people


,l'- i TiI


cities and villages,


water courses,


and the families of


have


brought


northern


up their


men


children


along
there, b


live differently, present


an entirely different


appears


In this village they will


compare favorably


with


those


northern town.


James


Johnson


ascribes the horrible as


the inhabitants of


the fertile but malarious plains of Lomi


mainly to


same


causes.


Their


drink


are eveS


worse


than


Floridians in quality, as are also tbfir


houses.


siderable


James


Clark


prevalence of


, on investigating the cause of a


consumption


in the Island of Madeia 


found that it was due almost entirely to the habits of life oflthi


poorest peasantry, among whom


almost all


cases occurts


They are "hard-worked and miserably nourished, bad]


and worse lodged
a foot or so from


year."


their beds consist of pallets of straw
1e ground, tamp during nine months


S'o we infer that a location is not necessarily u


for invalids


because the appearance of the


vorable, or because


a considerable


inhabitants is


amount of disease p


even


the very disease


the alleviation


of which the


deeirea a change.
S:former naner:


quote


following


paragraph


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t'on of the "Medical Statistics of the Army," exnadi. ^"
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series of years, personal
Medical and .line offloer.


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