r


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 I'
 4


Shrthe surface, and


AI
ic'
.1;.
*(r, ,


keep


, I rarely, if


kept in an open


hotel


miss


my office in


New


much


longer than beet


ever, find one of


box on
I have


York.


floor in


trouble with


bave


never


the comnmaonit:


my houseea
a, similar Bati
 0B"


heard


any corn


fiom


ladies about their hair


they might -not thi


worth mentioning to a doctor.
oulty in Madeira of keeping mus


Dr. Madden alludes to the i
iical instruments in tune. TM


is a difference


in this


respect


between Florida and some d


climates, especially as regards catgut,


not enough


any very great


inconvenience, and th


ere is very little infl


regards


pianos.


have


observed


dama


clothes packed and left


through


the summer.


The writer


thought it of


sufficient


importance


to notice in detail these


the best we have at present, and be is certain of the oorreo


of his statements


, according to his own observation, and that


others here to whom be has submitted these questions.


Andw


also find that this corresponds


a comparison


relative


with what
humidity as


we should infer front*
taken from different;


records


'with


Vivenot's classification


which is as follows


: Mod-


erately dry, 560


to 70


moderately moist,


to 856;


oesnivo4dy


moist, 860 to 100


68.6 (March,


57.5


lowest


relative


humidity for the


September,


76.8,


year


highest*).


being
This


brings the climate very nearly under the head of


moderately dry.


It lis


hoped


above


facts .will go far towards


rqhfting the wild statements which


have


been indulged in


generally with regard to the exoeeeive


moisture of Florida


tate,


as well as


presence


malaria.


" While


authorities concur," says, Dr.


Williams,t in


moist


air, there


are none


the les


-.^WrfMt, with equal poeitiveness,


the reverse.


c0 on this point is conflicting; and


Miptt othe fact that


this is no doc1$4g^


humidity i. a. elative.


ha not been $stMd or


'2


'%'.^*i-


the second


the 84]


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