The New York herald., 1873-12-15

would ne very enjoyable. yet, strange 10 say,
Prospect House crowning the hill behind the
town has been proved to be very unhealthy.
Every inmate OF it since the landing oil oir
Garnet Wolseley has been laid prostrate tnrough
fever The cause OF it lies in the bush-choked
holows around it and the fetid valley which runs
straight course from the foot OF Prospect Hill to
the beach. The wind bears on its wings the ex-
ha.ations ana drops the germs OF disease with
winch It's wings are clogged right at the portals
and ON the verandahs OF the house. and human
lungs respire and inhale the poisoned air.
Major Russell, who occupies the house with
other officers, seems to have been favored child.
He is tall, stalwart and strong, and when he
landed was a very picture OF robust manhood. He
was happy at the prospect OF living at Prospect
House. Men enved him the breezy height which
seemed to insure health, and said, ''What lucky
felowI' or all the officers which the steamer Am
briz brought to Cape Coast with Sir Garnet Major
Russell suffered from fever first.
HOSPITALS.
Already the hospital ship, the transport Simeon,
has been the residence Of many fever-stricken
patient Every man, however, conessing to Ill
health is not suffering from fever. The disease IN
some cases maniiests itself severe attacks OF
dysentery and three officers OF the staff are at
present laid up with this sickness the Simeon
CAPTAINS Butler, McAlmont and Charters.
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.
What is the element which produces so much
sickness among Europeans in Atrlcas Opinions
are divided. some doctors say 1t Is the water;
some say it is the poison exhaled from stagnant
water; while others again declare it to
be a deficiency OF ozone in the atmos-
phere to dlsinfect the malaria. 1t has
been proved that If a man spent twelve hours in
q hotbed OF malaria and lived the next twelve
hours where the ozone Is pretty. well developed
that the quantity OF ozone inhaled into the lungs
would be sufficient to neutralize the malaria taken
into the system. When person cannot remove
SO quickly into an ozonic atmosphere twenty
grains OF qunne should be taken, which is said to
contain the same properties. ! have not the
slightest doubt myself but that The scientists
correct and that the quantity OF ozone in an
atmosphere should te seriously considered by
people when about to choose permanent
residences Fortunately this is easy to discover
by an ozonometer which, when it indicated
over so degrees in the atmosphere, the resident
might accept the comfortable assurance that II the
malaria was not also in excess the intending
resident might enjoy tolerably good health. But
what can the traveller or the soldier effect in the
way OF preserving himself from a deficiency OF
ozone? What do on this expedition to
Comassie What can the traveller in the wilds
OF Africa do What comfort could be found by the
traveller reading in his ozonometer, maximum OF
ozone during the day, two degrees; maximum
during night, one degree lie must do as others
have done before him, 'grin and bear it and take
qunine."
Do you who live in healthy countries, who are
able to preserve your health by lair amount OF
exercise and little attention to diet,
realize what it is to be constantly suffer-
ing from lever, to bear about with you
the seeds OF that which may at any
moment lay you PROSTATE in dellrum, to being per-
petually anxious about the due taking OF quinine
and cathartics9 Our condition is best described by
the melancholy reply given to the traveller when
crossing the Pontine Marshes:-
"Nous ne uiuons pas; nous mouyons"
1--WE do not live; we die."
At town on this coast where statistics are kept
within eight years the deaths numbered 1,649, while
the births were only s12, showing that the deaths
exceeded the births by S37. These people, with the
poor marines who lately went into action los
strong and returned aboard ship under 25 strong,
might well say with us who have come to the Gold
Coast, "WE DO NOT LIVE; WE DE-"