New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-04

no c.,a with the ooc0anut tree watch Always
,hov, clusters of ripe nuts other clusters in differ
ept stages Of progression, and clusters Of new
blossoms.
As TO the effect of the dry and wet seasons on
the human constitution, both are considered
healthy when once regularly established. 1t is
the transition from the wet to the dry weather,
e,pecslly from the Great Rainy season to the Great
DRY season, that is reckOned as the sicBly part of
the year. The difference however, in this respec.
is, perhaps on the whole, less marked than it is in
the same months in most parts of the United States,
those especially In which remttent and intermit
tent feyers prevail Out of its own limits, British
Guipea has the reputation of not being very
healthy country. The effect Of the great and con-
tinuous heat, combined with moist eli nate and
swsmpy soil, might seem evident sources Of insa-
lub,ity But the colonists maintain that this repu-
tation for unhealthiness was acquired at time
when the process of clearing drainage and cultiva
ton first exposed the soil to the sun, an operation
in all warm countries apt tObe productive OF q good
deal of sickness. At present the colony in point
of health does not, according to their representa-
tions, fall behind any of the West Indies. With
good drainage, which is essential to the keeping up
of the cultivation il may, as they contend be fairly
compared with any other tropical country, especially
for those races adapted by constitution and habit to
tropical climate
The yellow fever that scourse Of our Southern
ports, and which appears annually in so many OF
he harbors and islands of the Gulf of Mexico and
he Caribbean Sea, has made ts appearance 10
Brrh Guiana, only at long intervals, and has then
been limited very much TO certain districts OF
Georgetown, and confined in its attacks mostly to
sailors on board the ships in the river, though occa-
sionally affecting other new corners, and in a few
| cases, even old residents. 1t appeared in 1913,
soon after the first Britsh occupation Of the colony,
and again in 1Sl9 In both these cases, it speedily
disappeared nor was it again heard Of till 1887. In
that year it caused great mortality among the SAIL
ors. and in 1889 broke out with violence among the
soldiers in garrison After it had ceased as an cpl
| demic cases continued to occur, especially among
the shipping but of late years they have been rare,
or have disappeared altogether. The yellow fever
rarely attacks the negro nor has it ever appeared
| in an epidemic form among the immigrants intro
duced into the colony. This fever is an object OF
| great dread from the audiences Of its attacks,
| and from the circumstance that the most vigorous
health affords no security against it. But as to the
number of its victims its effect upon the patient,
and the powerlessness of medicine against 1t, the
typbus fever of our own Northern States, and the
bilious levers of the South and West, especially in
their more malignant and occasionally epidemic
forms, are perhaps scourges quite az much to be
deprecated
II used TO be the boast Of the colonists that
British Guiana was among the few places which
had ESCAPED the visits of the Asiatc cholera The
appearance of that disorder in December, lcJ5,
put an end to this boast. 1t disappeared however,
after three or four months, and the number OF its
victims, 900 in all--was far lees in proportion TO
the whole population than in many other countries.
The white man is here as everywhere else under
the tropics exotic; but, Like many other exotles,
when properly taken Of, with reasonable sann-
| tory precautions, and little attention 70 diet,
clothing, sc. may enjoy quite ss much. and IN
some cases, especially where there is q tendency to
| pulmonary complaints, more of health and vtgor,
and quite "a long life as be could have expected
in the country Of his birth. He can labor, too, IN.
doors, though not with the same energy and perse-
yerance as IN o colder climate, and he is capable OF
great deal Of out door exercise and exposure, as
proved by the case of the managers and Oyerseers
Of plantations. But he is not capable OF continuous
agricultural labor in the sun and rain--at least, if
we may Judge from the total failure of all expert
ments Of that Sort whether in former recent
times This however, is topic which, well as the
question of the power Of the white man Of northern
European origin to propagate his race in tropical
countries, we tha consider more at length in
speaking of Barbados, where the experiment has
been tried On a larger scale, and through longer
period.
The athletic ' COR and general good health of the
ueqo population born in the colony and who con-
stitute the great mass of the native inhabitants is
relied upon az proving the saubrty Of the climate,
30 far as the African race is concerned The ques-
ton Of the health of the immgran brought TO the
colony subsequently 10 the introduction of the wages
system, and vi the amount of mortality among them,
will be considered when the general subject of i'm.
migration comes under review.
Thoie disorders Of the respiratory organs which
prove SO fatal in more variable cl mates, consump-
tion included, are here comparatively rare, though
| not by az Y means Of such uncommon occurrence as
is generally stated 10 be the case The prevailing
disorder is fever, generally intemttant quotidian,
tertaD, and quaItaD, but sometimes assuming
the continued form. II has been observed that dur
ing the rainy season the fever tends to take on a
typhoid and c0ngestve character, while in the dry
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