The Press., 1893-06-08

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 From consolidated table given the an nual ratio of sickness and mortality in different sections is given:
 No. Regions. Mean No.
 Coast of NewEngrnd, 4529 2
 Hinro Har6oP P of New York, 1SsS6 SsS6 73 49 North i Interior east, 85Ss F 10
 New Mexico, 13445 25
 Utah, 5S42 At West Point of IA cases reported all died. The least proportion of deaths to cases occurred in Utah and New Mexico, the interior of Florida and south Atlantic states. We find that Utah and NewMeXico present decidedly the most favorable re- port; that reports from>the Pacific states follow very closely.
 Utah stands out prominently as the place par excellence for freedom from consumption, or if it occur from death. Opposed to this we have out of mean strength of 12,956 men stationed in the harbor of New York 73 cases, of which 40 died.. Coast of New England of 4529 were 21 cases treated. Of this number 6 died. In explanation of the mortality at West Point it is stated that the cadets having comfortable homes to go 10 would naturally be discharged from the acade- my at their request while suffering from incipient symptoms.
 Deaths from tuberculosis in Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah, Colorado, are tabulated as only 5 per cent, while in the New England states the percentage of | the annual number of deaths from this disease is as high as 20 per cent. We have now the means of ascertaining with some degree of accuracy the cause of this mortality and death rate, and to estimate the influence which climate has in rela- tion to this disease.
 Allowing that there are no people of whom we have history between the poles and the equator, who are entirely exempt from the disease, yet in countries having great areas of inland, far remote from the sea with rising altitude, where & shifting of the wind is followed by no change of the thermometer, barometer or of humidity, where for months there is no rainfall, where the only moisture is the nightly dew, even the rivers become dry, where vegetation is only grown by irrigation, where for months the sun rises and sets in cloudless sky, this lingering, incurable malady of the coast is unknown. There physicians have no use for the stethoscope among the native people. They are familiar with the disease only as they are consulted by our coastwise peo- pie who go there to be benefited by the change of climate.
 | New Mexico, between 31 and 37 n. lat, corresponding to that of North and South Carolina, Is composed of lofty plateaus, traversed from it's northern Colorado boundary by the Rocky Mountain range to it's southern Texas line-the Rio Grande at the base of it's western slope-tempera- ture is mild, seldom below the freezing and rarely rising to extreme heat in more elevated portions-a clear sky and a re- markedly dry atmosphere. The mean annual temperature of Santa Fe at 700 it. altitude is 4Se; that of Las Vegas at 6,45O it. altitude is 51e. Dr. Francis Hatkins, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, gave some interesting statements relating to that state at the American Medical Asso- citation held at Detroit last June. He said "that in the southern portion of less altitude the mean annual temperature is from 55o to 65o. A signal bureau analysis placed Fl Paso, Texas, and Fort Stanton,
 New Mexico, in a preferred list for least average cloudiness, with but go and % days
 respectively per annum reported cloudy.
 In one recent year 1 noticed Santa Fe ac-
 credited with 27 cloudy days, while De-
 troit had 123 and Chicago 116, while the
 proportion of days rated clear in New
 Mexico to days called fair is immensely
 greater than in the lake cities. Here is Q | y o a breeze that is never warped into cyelonic
 effects; attitudes from $500 to 1000 it.,
 with towns providing constantly improv-
 ing shelter and comforts for invalid visit
 ors. Visiting doctors wonder how the
 New Mexican physicians live, so meagre is
 the practice afforded, so healthful is the
 climate. The Las Vegas physicion often
 has long spells of enforced idleness, when
 he cultivates philanthropy and the softer ) virtues. During the past year many months saw our physicians but lightly employed, while our druggists we're sub-
 sisting by selling .perfumery and cigars. Cases with cavity, if not progressing too rapidly on arrival, will mend, but in the
 name of all honest Rocky Mountain doc- : tors and tender-hearted lodging house
 keepers, let me beg that cases with ad-
 vanced destruction of the lungs, high tenn
 perature, and consistently rapid pulse, be
 not sent to this country, or at least not to the higher localities. On the other ex- : treme, there is no better climate in which l persons who are merely weak, or are ) lacking in robust development, especially such as are of the tuberculous stock, or , markedly delicate families, may secure safety from phthisis and develop more TO- l bust bodies. All who have lived here , unite in pronouncing the summers nearest to the ideally perfect that they have ever l seen. The air is so tempered by the dry } ness as not to be oppressive. Sunstrokes 7 like the cyclone, malaria, the flea and the mosquito, are unknown"
 In 1888 the population of the state was 100000. Some of the cities are: Santa Fe, with population at that time o 1000; Albuquerque, 5000; Socono, 1000 These places are active with industries largely introduced by northern men witt , , northern capital. They are we'll provided with hotels for tho accommodation of in valids from the north and east, easily ac cessible by the Topeka and Santa Fe R ? R., which follows the Rio Grande river : Two states, Arizona and California. in , tervene between these places and the Pa . cific coast on the west, with Mexico bor dering on the south - no damp wind from any large body of water. Albu Il querque, on theRioGrande-eleva 800
 -55 miles south of Santa Fe, is on tn
 Topeka X Santa Fe and Atlantic X Pacifi r R. R. This state is in tho same latitud | lxrrfth