The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-08-22
COBB COUNTY.
Its Location, Climate and
HealthfulneSS.
MILD WINTERS AND COOL SUMMERS
With Good Drainage and Pure Water
We are Free from the Ravages
of Epidemic Diseases.
From Southern Immigrant.

From Southern Immigrant.
Georgia is one of the most pro-
gressive Of the Southern States. She
has male, next to Texas, more rapid
strides forward than any other
Southern State /; while in the variety
Of climate, soil, timber and marble,
ETC., she cannot be excelled.
The Piedmont or Northern Sec
ton of the state, is considered first
in climate. Climate is the most
important condition in the environ
ment of a people. 1t embraces, in
its scope, health, comfort, muscular
vigor. 1t affects our mode of living,
indoor and outdoor life; and comes
home to US in many ways.
1t is in this section of the state,
that Cobb county is situated, at an
elevation Of 1000 to /. 100 feet above
the sea level; a rolling, undulatinc
country, well drained, and free from
sluggish streams or damp Doggy
land.
The average yearly rainfall is
about fifty-seven inches, and gener-
ally quite evenly distributed
throughout the year. The tempera.
ture IS mild, and free from the ex>
tremes of cold in winter or heat in
summer.
The mean temperature for the
winter months is about forty-seven
degrees spring, sixty.one degrees /;
summer, seventy-6ve degrees au-
tumn, sixty-two degrees; yearly
average sixty-two degrees. Land
can be worked every month in the
year.
But my special object in this le.-
ter, is to bring to the attention OF
those who may be seeking for mild
and healthful climate-one in which
those who are not robust in health,
or may be suffering from weak lungs
or throat, or run down from .Galarial
poison-may find the best conditions
for regaining their health. After a
residence of sixteen years, having
come here myself from Brooklyn,
N. y, suffering from pulmonary
trouble, and in such an enfeebled
condition that | did not think I
would recover. Ihave not only fully
regained my health, but have been
enabled to do an active practice as
physician for the past twelve years.
And others have had the same ex-
perience as to regained health and
yigor, by residence here.
The best climate for the health
seeker, is that in which he can enjoy
the greatest amount of exercise,
without discomfort. The conditions
which conduce to this in general,
are an equal temperature ard a
great number OF sunshiny days.
These are happily combined in Cobb
county.
The winter climate is of the right
temperature to give that feeling of
vigor, without which no gain in
health can be made while the sum-
mer climate is exempt from the ex-
tremes of heat that characterizes the
low lands of the South, and the
nights are cool and refreshing. A
comparatively dry air is desirable
in both warm and cold weather.
Dampness aggravates both the effect
Of heat and cold. Damp air combin-
ed with heat is always more debili>
tating, than air OF the same tempera-
ture which is dry.
In this respect this section COM
pares very favorably with Colorado,
California, New Mexico or Texas,
the humidity being the same, or less
than in these states.
Located on a high table land, with
good drainage and pure water, We
are unusually exempt from the raw
ages of epidemic diseases. Yellow
fever cannot exist in this section,
and all forms of fever are few and
very mild in their course.
While some typhoid fever may
prevail in the autumn months, it is
Of mild type, and the mortality
from it very slight, and it is not the
dreaded disease, as it occurs through
out the North and West.
Consumption, that dreaded foe to
many living in the cold climate of
the North and Weat, does not thrive
here, the ratio of deaths from it
being very small, and will show
much smaller per cent. than many
of the boasted resorts for that dis