The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-01-01


The winter Of 1S7o-So was very mild, and the
ow.fa at Rugby, in the northern half of the pla-
teau, was only two inches for the entire season.
This winter, thus far however, has proved more
severe as elsewhere in the whole country, and seven
inches Of snow have already fallen, as reported by
the meteorological observer at Rugby. Though oc-
casional icehouses found in the northern half Of
the tabe-land, there none seen in the southern
half. The air in the winter, also, is pure, bracing
and stimulating, calling forth from his best ef
forts and energies, physical and mental.
Indeed, many things conspire to make this table,
land the abode of health and strength that are not
and cannot be found elsewhere in our country save
on the Pacific coast.
We have places in the United States that are good
summer climates and bad winter climates and viN
ar,Sa, but few, very few, that present such induce
ments and advantages for permanent residence as
this table land of Tennessee.
Here consumption and sunsroke are compare
lively unknown; malaria finds no foothold no abid
ing place; darrhea, dysentery, bilious and intes
final troubles are reduced their lowest terms, while
all the regions east, west, north and south. yearly
suffer from the ravages of these agents of the De-
stroyer For proof of this see the census charts
for $780, edited by General Walker, where, in a
series of graphic Illustrations, these points are set
clearly forth.
| HEALTH ON THE TABLE-LAND.
We give below extracts from an essay delivered
before the Medical Society of the State of Tennessee
at its regular meeting in Nashville in 1879
"A Peobk EHhoH Consumption, and .SoMe Account
Of their Country the Cumberland zablsland. BY
h. M Wight M d., Chattanooga, Tenn.
"Durng the ten years that l have practiced med-
cine in the neighborhood of the Cumberland table
lands, have often heard it said that the people
the mountains never had consumption. Occasion
ally travelling newspaper correspondent from the
North found his way down through the Cumberlands
and wrote back filled with admiration for their grand
eur their climate, their healthfulness, and almost
invariably stated that consumption was never known
upon these mountains, except brought there by
person foreign to the SOIL who, if he came
enough usually recovered. Similar information
came to me in such variety of ways and number of
instances, that determined some years ago, when
the attempt to get State Board of Health organized
was first discussed by few medical men of our
State, that l would make an investigation of this
matter These observations have extended over that
whole time, and have been made with great care and
as much accuracy as possible, and to my own aston.
ishment and delight, have become convinced that
pulmonary consumption does not exist among the
people native and resident to the tabe-lands Of the
Cumberland Mountains In the performance of the
work which has enabled me to arrive at this conclu-
sion, have had the generous assistance Of more
than twenty physicians, who have been many years
in practice the vicinity of these mountains Their
knowledge of the diseases which had occurred there
had extended over period of than forty years.
Some Of these physicians have reported the knowl-
4 edge Of the occurrence Of deaths from consumption
on the table lands, but when carefully inquired into,
they have invariably found that the person dying
not native of the mountains, but sojourner in
search of health" "a ~
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A FRENCH colony is to be established next to Rug