Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-05-09
The Wings ofHenry and Williams Coun'
ty, are about organizing Tippecanoe Clubs,
HEALTH OF THE MAUMEE VAL
LEY.


In proportion to the fertility of the soil
is the amount Of sickness in new countries
in the same latitude, upon their first settle
ment. There are doubtless some excep-
tions to this; but in a large majority of ca
ses it Is strictly true. Where "the earth
has been gathering fertility from the re-
pose Of centuries" and the amount ofvegc-
table matter annually subjected to decay,
has been accumulating with each success
sive year, incipient cultivation by clearing
up the forests, and admitting the rays Of
the sun to act more fully upon the soil, mus,
always set free largo amount Of miasma
and bilious and intermitting fevers will pre-
vail" The history Of the early settlement
of the interior Of New York and Of all the
Western statel, clearly proves the truth oI
this position. Now, it has always so hap
pened that when any new section of the
country has possessed any peculiar advan.
tages for business, which have marked il
out as place destined to become Of grea,
Importance, by which the attention of the
public has been directed to it, while at the
same time it possessed great fertility oI
soil, that it has also obtained notoricty as o
sickly place, while other sections less
known, have enjoyed reputation for sau-
brity without any more claim to it. lie,
the Genesee Valley, now healthy, but q
few years since second only to New Or
Jeans in public estimation for unhealthincss,
attest the truth Of this.
At the present time our city has attained
this unenviable reputation; a pre.emnence
which, it is our intention to show, we nei-
ther claim or deserve. In doing this, we
shall endeavor to establish,
1st. That the Maumee Valley is as heal
thy as other new sections of the country
possessing equal fertility of soil, and not ST.
tueted in higher latitude.
ed. That the average annual mortality
is no greater, 1--WE believe it to be less than
in the eastern States. ........
Sd, That where Intermitting Fever pre-
walls, it, tyrant-like, usurps the whole
ground to the almost total exclusion of
epidemic diseases, consumption, sc.
4th. That the laws which govern mula-
ria, and the manner in which it acts upon
the system, are now so well understood,
that, by the use Of proper care, bilious and
intermitting fevers may, with much GER
tainty, be avoided.
In proving our first proposition, we nre
aware that we shall have the popular cur
rent Of opinion to costend with. All we
ask is, that laying aside prejudice, our
readers will bring the same candor TO the
examination Of the subject, that we shall
endeavor to use in writing. We do not
expect to prove that there is no ague and
fever in the Maumee Valley at the present
time; and, indeed, we should deserves good
hearty shake for making the attempt. But
we do contend, that, had the settlement and
cultivation Of the soil here, been contem-
porary with that Of the Genesee. Cuyaho-
90 and other valleys, the Maumee river
would never have beer that "raw -head-and-
bloody bones" to people that it now is.
AT the time Cleveland and other places on
the lake shore were settled, the country
was al! new. and ague prevailed in all parts
alike; no inridious distinctions could be
made. At present, the case is entirely dif-
ferent: those towns have now been 4 num-
ber Of years under cultivation; the annual
vegetation ID consumed by the numerous
locks and herds with which they abound,
Ind Of consequence the ague has disappear
ID from among them; while tho Maumee
valley 10 now In precisely the same situa-
ion that they occupied u few years since,
With this difference, We stand alone, and
'hus appear more ceuspleuous thar did any