The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-08
Changes-Changes OF AtmOs-
phere-P0bllc Health.


TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
have read In the HERALD, within few days, remarks
upon the sudden change Of temperature, from oath to
2eth Of May u, s) degrees, ~ being very
great and injurious to health The number Of
the Herald contains statement Of the bills Of mortality
In New York for that week, showing that the sekths
fewer than usual. Such Is the uniform result Of
such changes 1t is not the suddsnness Of change the
great difference in the degrees Of temperature within the
twenty forty eight hours that constitute tho di-
Guilty experienced health it is tie bad quality
Of the changed air the bad quality Of which produces
sickness.
viii state some few facts In illustration
Franeonia, New Hampshire, celebrated for its sx-
traordinary cold atmosphere has the most changsabs
correspondence The changes there are more sudden,
more equsnt and Of greater extsnt than and
great proportion Of inhabitants over seventy years Of
age tn proportion to tho population IS does this town
South longitude East the temperature exceediugy
changeabe Nv records from there shov Of
2 hundred and twenty eight degrees In tho shade
degrees hours; and yet the inhabitants healthy
there being but little lightning.
lntensr heat Of the does not affect health
with intense cold.
In Australia the temperature rises 50 high in the sun
bat iron becomes heated to be unfit held in
be naked hand-snd the opposite the most intense cold
1t the Poles renders iron unsafe to be taken in the naked
hand.
Our thermometrical records and records OF natural
pht nomena cover long series OF years. and compared
proofs that conclusive the little effect Of sudden
and great changes upon public health: The sudden
change is beneficial and not injurious to health.
The heat Of Australia, In climates, would produce
Of coup de soiel almost without Nmit-theYe nc
such results are experienced.
The dairyman, the butcher and the brewer! each
tell that there states Of when thun
der heard at distance in which milk changes in the
cellar spos hung in the stalls and yeast ceases it,
fermentation. n
They are mute Witnesses but their united testimony ia
convincing and conclusive
man being, become affected by the same cause?
In 1882, there were three weeks (includug the two
of cholera numerous in New York city
and the mortality appalling than any other Pc
city visited bv fearful and terrific thuuder storms
the city trembied with the OF broken
and the air was saturated with dissolved lightning In
these six storms, eleven ) several places in the city
struck by ightniDg-S greater NUMBER than
knew of in s Jingle seaeon.
The "potato rot results from thunder storms, while
the mix of the root Is in the right state to DO affected
1t is not every thunder storm that changes milk that
thunder Storm Destroys the
saturated with frost changes and becomes patrid in the
same potato saturated with lightning The rose
cut down BY the breath Of frost loses its aroma but not
when cut down wi b the scythe.
The atmosphere of the Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky,
in It's tenn perfect and complete equilibrium.
In the dry avenues Of the cave which ,ies in
Fahrenheit summer and winter It is uncnsngeable,
and yet it Is active aud living atmosphere, for in
winter the ruthes into the In unbrokea
rent al In summer the current equally steadily blow
ing ont OF the caves mouth. vtiter remarked
that it felt to him. when entering 1t in INNER, il
SEEM nor thunder ever heard. have spent much tms
in the 1t oil Of the year and frequently
curing thunder storms | have been far within these
neither charbers never heard thunder there have
ever fightnicg within those DARK territories. At
one time seventy aborers employed IN the cave,
making sapetre and of sickness occurred among
these workmep, although engaged there for years Nei
Their animal nor vegetable matter putrfes dscomposss
within the cave. Thus an eauiibrious atmosphere,
where there is thunee and lightning, IL healthy
The antiseptc properties Of the atmosphere Of the
EARTH beyond the Attic magnetic pole well knovn and
there both thunder and lightning perfect strangers
The records Of the yellox fever Norfolk and Ports
month last year. compared sih the OF tenPera
tany by the pestfience when the thunder storms
were the most active. When Dr. Barton, President Of
the Sanitary Board Of New Orleans called pom to
examine my chronological record Of 1853, for that
ton Of the in which the yellow fevof prevailed
feartuiy in thst city, said to him, III you witt refer to
your record for the day Ia which the iever
fatal win to record and what the state
OF the atmosphere on that day. He said the 20tn OF
August On that day more than 800 numbered
win the dead Our record says, s28th OF Augus-grea
Here the two records met united their testimony
II Is admitted by all who have experience and the OBJ
porunfty Of observation that the yellow fever will NO.
remsn for single dsy In frosty atm asphere; then
why not, in the commenceu ent of the pesense while
its ravages confined to few cases refrigerate the
ostrictf can with pounded ice and selt rnxsd, cut
Gown field of vegetables in single nirkt by strewiua
It's surface with the frrerstng mixture. That whick
will destroy vegetation will destroy yellow poison
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, June 3 1856. V. MERRIAM.