The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-05-08

Remarkably Few Deaths Occur in Daw-
son.


EDITOR NEWS: 1t is not often that
the writer offers any thoughts or views
to reading public, but, inspired by the
belief that every loyal citizen of our
town is al ways glad to digest anything
which savors Of health and prosperity TO
Dawson, it will not be becoming to
give a few facts. 1t is more of the evil
dence of the healthfulness OF the city
that prompts this article than anything
else. Before becoming a citizen OF this
county and town had been suspicious
OF the p ssbility OF any denizen attain
ing to any speci al degree OF long evlty,
[ almost had a chill when | thought Sc
riously of casting my lot here: but, act
ING upon the adage of nothing risked
nothing gained, | have been a resident
little less than dozen years, and my
position in the community has served
me well Ct risk nothing in this assertion)
in determining the real truth as to the
health of Dawson and Terrell county.
| have tried to make myself, in this re-
spect, a close observer, and if my deduc-
tiOns from such observation have been
correct the town and county have stead
lily grown in salubrity until now the
towns and counties of the state that can
show better mortality record and finer
specimens of manhood and womanhood
are few indeed. | doubt materially if
any town of 5000 people in this state
can say more than can Dawson OF It's
mortality within the last few years.
There were during the year 1894 but %
deaths among the white citizens of the
town, or but little more than one per
cent from all causes, and these
deaths were confined almost If
not entirely to infants, very young chill,
dren and old people; not death from
any local cause that | have been able to
learn. During the four months that
have passed of the present year there
have been two deaths in the city limits,
one infant and one aged lady-an OctOge-
marian. think. Like every locality, we
have our peculiar class Of diseases, but
there is always a small average mortality
in the forms of fever and other troubles
common here. Even during the hot
summer months for several years there
have been really but very limited num-
Der of fever cases, which are almost
always, as any of your physicians will
tell you. of a mild remittent type. But
few cases ever assume typhoid type,
and but rarely is there a death IN our
fevelS. While it is true that the M. DIS
manage to sustain themselves, as IN all
communities where there are ladies and
children, vet no one will gainsay the
assertion that no medicine man has ever
grown rich in Dawson. These facts are
given for what they are worth; any one
of them can be verified by proper inves-
tigation. Strangers whiting our town
are always compelled to admit the flush
of health that is prominent on the cheek
of almost every citizen, male and female,
and not infrequently the visitor from the
mountain country is compelled to admit
the favorable comparison in this regard
between this and his ozone country.
Why, with such advantage, coupled with
the possibilities OF our country, should
there MT be more persistent effort
toward securing immigration, inviting
capital and manufacturing enterprises?
Why wait for the world to simply drift
in our direction in the ordinary course of
human events? Why not advertise our
selves, and let not only the nation but
the world know what and who we are?
No section of the state can surpasS our
agricultural possibilities, no lands in this
or any other section are superior for
peaches and other fruit, none better for
a vast variety of truck. Let Dawson and
Terrell county make themselves known
and only the future can tell the amount
of good things in store for all of us.
i MEDICUs.