i 0 iOlMATsu


 If mrfaoe rains


having occurred,


/* I


but not suffient


o ''


sources


springs


wells,


so that


these


y dried up, and on several occasions farmers were corn-


ldi to take their cattle long distances to brooks to


Ii'Gter. The snows have also
r kuiient to wet the subsoil.


give them


been very deficient in winter, not


Large surfaces,


therefore,


which


been


kept


cool and


moist


in summer by springs,


te dry,


wherever there was an impervious subsoil or


tPo k, there the malaria was generated.


This


been, in


opinion, the most potent if not the only factor in


,Mthe marked increase of fevers in all these areas.
 But tourists and the great majority of invalids


the causation


are only con-


"aIrned with the winter climate of Florida


and wh


e it can


be denied that persons may contract ague here in any season


We year


, just as they are doing all over the country, especially of


, yet it is so rare among visitors that it need not, and should


.?asot, enter into


calculations of


those


whose condition


calls


:.for a winter residence in a mild


climate.


No climate on earth


ia perfect.


Persons who have suffered for years from malaria at


the North have recovered from its effects here;


inj curious


influence


a severe


winter


the escape from
i a changeable


spring having improved the tone of


Writer


affords


an illustration


this.


the nervous


Having


system.
suffered


for a


.long time from malarious


fever among the picturesque and for-


Slpeotiy salubrious highlands of
^,J'imed by his medical friends at


Hudson


, he was strongly ad-


North not to remain longer


John's


than


April


He did


, however,


ain until near the middle


in the spring


three


of May, has


years,


continued to remain
s entirely recovered


*011


his malarious


even


torments, though


Saratoga.


failing to get relief


another illustration of the im-


from fever here in the winter, enjoyed by Northern vis-


be worthy qf mention that of


tt hotel in which


the writer


the large number of
boards, and the pro-


.tMduely a ca


stain


he8


of fever has occurred in three


until May, 4d .iOr ^ ^ t "


flM-Wa


.1 th- f rhl


I % fiS'7 L t 


tiat


2


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