The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01
HEALTHFULNESS, ETC.
Drugs a Drag on the Market.
In the Matter of Lumber Timbers, Texas in
the Van-She will Yet be the Great
Manufacturing State of the
United States,
The Rainfall of the State and its Water
Shed-The Lumber Facilities-The
Manufacturing aud Commercial In
terests of the State.


into insisnilicance. We shall only in a
general way speak ofthe
HEALTH
of the state. From long residence and n
personal familiarity with and knowledge of
its various sections, we are prepared to
speak intelligently ON the subject without
going into scientific details. The climate of
Texas, in our opinion, is paticu-
larly a healthfui one, specially
in certain portions of it. Commencing at
north Texas, it is our experience and obser-
walton that it is treer from malaria than any
portion of the South, saving and excepting
western Texas, all the time. This is a prai-
RE country, high and rolling, with an ever
sweeping breeze to cool and purify the at
mosphere, in the spring and summer, blow
ing off the impurities that may be gener-
ated in the few localities where decaying
vegetable matter may give birth to the
germs of malaria We have no dense river
or creek bottoms, with their rank vegetation
flows and then to tester and rapidly decay
in the heat of summer. The autumns are
genial and grateful, and the winters, in
comparative sense, mild. In the
winter we have what are termed,
in ordinary parlance, "winter fevers, F"
or more properly speaking, pneumonia,
but no more 50 than is common in all the
states of this latitude, and nothing to COM
pare to the northern states, We have some
chills and fever in the early spring, but sim
ply in degree in common with the more
temperate of the southern states. In east
ern Texas, chills and feyers and malarial
complaints are more common in the spring
and summer, but these are confined princi-
pally to the unacclimated. Immediately
along the coast in southern Texas the cities
are liable to yellow fever epidcmics when
they exist in New Orleans and Mobile, pro-
videI the quarantine be not strictly en-
forced. Yet there has not been a yellow
fever epipemic anywhere in Texas since
1867 Then Galveston, Houston and some
other towns were visited by this dire
county, and Columbus, in Colorado county,
had epidemics of fever of the nature of
yellow fever, but they were not begotten of
local causes. In fact, we believe that vel
low fever will not terminate in Texas any
where, and whenever there Is visitation of
it to any point, it is first carried from some
where else. The whole of western Texas
may truly be said to be an Eden on earth
for healthfulness. 1t has for years been the
resort of persons afflicted with consump-
ton, bronchitis and hundreds diseases, and
no case yet, unless where the patient was
too far gone to rccuperate under any cir
cumstances, has failed to regal. .,.lth and
strength. AS whole We may say that
Texas is the most healthtul Of all the
southern states, because there - so little of
swamps and alluvial lands within its limits
to produce malarial diseases in the spring
and summer. There is no country to which
the stranger may repair where he
will not be subject TO more or
less of sickness until he becomes accimatcd.
Persons coming to Texas in the fall and
a.n al,unvo ooolir, nI l,N. an ti,,,a
spring and summer comes, the only times
they are liable here to disease from unaccli-
nation. The water i'll every section of the
state is pure and excellent; therefore there
is almost perfect Immunity from acute dis
eases of the stomach and bowels from the
water. The fact Is that the bulk of sickness
and death is from causes common to all
countries, all climates, such as casualties,
groups, puerperal diseases, whooping
cough, measles and chronic affections, and
not from local causes The health question
schools. public and private, churches, rail
roads and the state Of society generally, are
inquired into OF schools we will treat spe-
cially elsewhere, rs we will also of railroads,
and as to churches and religion,
we can truly say that in these particulars
Texas is exceptionally well situated. All
the Protestant faiths flourish here, and
number their members by thousands and
thousands throughout the state. The Cath
Ollie religion has q large following, and has
its church building in almost every city and
town in the state, with ITS converts and male
schools in the principal city. In every town
of any size you will find u Jewish temple,
wherein its congregation can worship nc
cording to the faith of its fathers. In every
community IN The state there are one or
more church buildings, and in the towns
and cities every denomination has its place
of worship, some of them splendid temples
of God. There is no religious intolerance
anywhere, and even the iniidcl and the
skeptic can openly express himself in public
or private, with none to modest him or make
him afraid. The society of the country is,
upon the whole, as good Us can be
found anywhere The people, as u
rule, are refined cultured to a
greater or lesser degree, are law abiding
Social and respectable. On the frontier and
in sparccly settled counties an element
more or less luwcss and given to rowdyism
Is found MS Is the case in every new and
lust developing country, and In the larger
towns and cities there are rough and idle
characters as there are III all large towns
and cities. A vast deal has been said In
Texas. but tho official records of the state
show lust rs little here as in any other
state similarly situated. Indeed, II COM
parison is made between the frontier and
Similarly populated sections OF Texas, sec
tions removed from the restraining influences
of law and public opinion, with similar sec
tions In Colorado, In Kansas, in Nevada, in
Nebraska, In any of the states and territories
Of the American Union, Texas will show up
in brighter light than any. of them. In
the thickly settled portion OF the
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