The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-05
lVANNAH'S HEALTH--4
FrCIAL STATISTICS SHOW NO
HEALTHIER CITY.
10 Forest City's Remarkable Exemp-
zion From Virulent Diseases.
BY COL I. W. AVERY.

,,,sr7fe4 into French By L. Chdrrier, the
Psi1j1n consul, translated into German by
4 Io.grs, the German Consul; from advance
,5lefs Of the Baltimore Manufacturers
record.
The draining of the low grounds around
avannah has made the city as healthy a
lace as there is in the world. .
ocsted on the Savannah river, seventeen
-ass in an air line from the ocean and
,panty-four by the stream, on the south
bank. on a steep sand bluff mile long and
.,-tv.Aye feet above mean low water, the
buff declining back with forest growth
,aptlv several miles, Savannah Is as health
hi as it is beautiful
Il has wide streets and twenty open
,,nares of one to one and one-half acres
.ach. cool, with fine shade trees and green
wards scattered at regular intervals; with
park and parade ground of thirty acres,
onl an ANTIQUE cemetery unused for thirty
ears. giving many and delightful spots for
|iraething sweet air and for children's
sports.
| The water that supplies the city is the
unrest and best known to mankind, coming
! nom a system of twelve artesian wells, 500
/ lei deep, rising forty-one feet above mean
5w water mark, and flowing Is, 000,0 900 gal
/ rns daily, or over 30O gallons to the inhab-
liant. The city is free from every disease
1 generated by impure water.
4 The average annual temperature is 66e,
Ike that Of Bermuda, GiDralter, Palermo,
N9ntevldeo and Sidney; average winter
old 500; summer heat SIS. Killing frosts
nne about Nov. %. There are are about
& d cloudy days in the year. A delicious
amatic feature is the cool nights, born of
4 tbs fresh ocean breezes. the result OF the
made winds, rising in the late afternoon,
Hot nights are rare.
The rate Of mortality is very low, being
III among the whites to the thousand.
4 This is a remarkable mortuary record.
5 The annals of Savannah's exemption from
{ diseases are extraordinary. Hydrophobia
. isunknown; vesiole calculus does NOT exist
among residents; renal calculus is rare :;
A3iatlc cholera has never appeared in the
city proper; eruptive feverS are mild:
dphtherla, long unknown here is not vir-
ulent; membraneOus Group is rare; cholera
intantum is rare aud mild, due to ample air
spaces, perennial shade trees, constant sea
breezes, relative GOODNESS aud absence of
summer malaria. Cerebro spinal meningitis
has been here but once; puerperal fever is
so unusual that the city cannot be excelled
as a safe lying-in station. Sunstrokes are
very unusual, erYsipelas is far from COM
mon. Savannah is among the ports having
iewest epldemlcs, taking place with Boston,
with but four years Of yellow fever, that
has not visited the city since 1876, since
when the city drainage has been perfected,
preventing the epidemic. though raging
near and generally.
The prevalent diseases are of the lungs,
gasro-iutestinal diseases, and paludaI dis
orders. Virulent malarial diseases are
rarely seen.
These valuable facts about Savannah's
health we're gained from that scientific ply
slcian, DR.. r. j. Mum.
oavannah's uncommon exemption from
human ills has been variously accounted
for-on its artesian water, thorough drain
age, city and suburban; the protection of
the high bluff on the river front, and the
forest growth Oh the other sides, the prohi-
oitlon Of rice culture within a mile of the
city, the filtering effect of its sandy soil, the
vide streets, with porous soil and many
squares; the abundant shade trees and cons
slant salt sea breezes, and location too far
south for cold weather disorders and too
far north for tropical ailments.
Whatever be the causes, the magnificent
fact stands interchangeable that Savannah
Is on ne trial medical ground, where viru-
lent malarial disease Of the far south finds
no home. and the intractable disorders of
the far north cannot kill.