The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-07-20
THE HEATED TENN.

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the foot of the Rocky Mountains to the Allie.
ghenles and from Chicago to Memphis, has
been smitten for the past two weeks by the
hottest term it has experienced since 1856.
The heat all over the district indicated, has
neither day or night been below 80, and in
many places, in the middle of the day, has
gone up to 102 to 10G in the shade In Otta.
wa the extreme was reached about O'Clock
Wednesday at 81 to 102, according to different
thermometers. The thermometer, however,
reached the nineties in the middle of the day
sOr nearly two weeks until Thursday when we
believe SO was about the extreme. Thursday
! might was quite cool with an east wind, and
yesterday morning hopes were entertained
that The torrid term was over; but by noon
yesterday the thermometer was again IN the
nincties and at present writing the prospect of
a "et up' seems dashed.
Naturally such extreme heat has been at.
tended with the usual casualties by sunstroke,
but IN that respect no city has been more nota,
bly, affected than st. Louis. The fatalities by
sunstroke there remind one of visitation of
cholera or yellow fever Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday of last week there were about
60 cases and 81 deaths; Monday $50 cases re-
ported and as many more probably not report,
ed, with 80 deaths Tuesday 1870 cases report
ed and 80 deaths; Wednesday so cases and 16
deaths, and Thursday such change in the at
mosphere as to indicate the beginning of the
end" with a marked diminution of cases."
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return of the extreme heat with no indications
of relief in the near prospect.
Chicago, although with the Thermometer
daily for two weeks reaching the nineties,
seems to have suffered little by sunstroke the
hottest days not yielding over dozen of
cases. Up to Thursday evening, however,
there had been II deaths. On that day there
was sudden fall Of temperature to n, and
hopes were entertained that permanent relief
had come. But yesterday the thermomer was
again in the nineties
At Quincy, Burlington, Kansas City, Oma.
ha, &c. the heat was nearly equal to that of
St Louis, and attended with frequent cases of
sunstroke. Cincinnati, Louisville, &C., also,
had an equal share Of the heat with numerous
sunsroke casualties.
Milwaukee seems to have suffered as badly
St Louis the cases there on Wednesday
reaching 80.
Yesterdays dispatches also indicate that the
heated term has opened at the east, Pittsburg,
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
Washington, Sc, sweltering in a heat ranging
in the middle of the day from "a to 1902, and
attended with the same fatality as elsewhere
from sunstroke.
OF course, such Il visitation is not without
its lessons, hidden as may be to us, IN the deem
and untathomabe economy 81 the universe,
the reasons for our torment, and the ehiet of
tlese lessons IS u.at if we would avoid sun.
suohe, 'ie drst and essential point is to be
e"ie'"- IN regard to diet and above all, to let
.cQNor alone. After thirty summers of treat
raent Of the disease in St Louis" says Il ply:
stefan in the GL0ce.D Democrat, 81 am so con.
WINGED of the injurious effects of alcoholic
stimulates, that | can hardly recall case OF
sunstroSe in which the patient had not either
been indulging too freely III liquor, or had
been suffering at the time under some diseased
condition of the system from malarial poison"
A popularity notable in St Louis was, that
large proportion of the cases occurred in
DOORS not under the direct rays of the sun, and
many after night-the fault, in nearly all such
cases, living in the carelcssness of the victim
in failing to relieve his throbbing temples by
cooling applications, or in directly precipatat-
ingsthe attack by reckless liquor drinking.