The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-17


From the New York Times.
Pasadena, Cal, Nov. Fl know
am a erank-overy one is who has ideas
different from some one e'se: but that's
the very reason l came out here and Went
to bee keeping" said little Old man who
lived In one of the canons OF the Sierra
Santa Monica range, California. III I
want to talk TO the bees" he added. eat
while standing on my head, believe that
animals go to heaven, or that we are about
a thousands years behind the times in our
ideas of life and health, there is no one
TO dispute me or object. l am a chank
bee keeper, and that's all there is to IL.
came out from New York state for my
health. and if you wish to do some good
get the government to warn the people
about the weather as It does the farmers
about their crops. Why2 Because the
rise and fail of the Thermometer and ba-
rometer have everything to do with
health
You can see this" continued the bee
keeper, by dividing your climate up. Say
that in the course of the year you have
six distinct kinds that have been recog-
nized by experts In Boston I have count
ed thirty, but we will start on six; first,
cold; second dry cold; third, dry hot;
fourth, plain heat; five, moist heat, and
six moist cold. We know these different
kinds and their variations aud combina-
tons. Now then, there they are. Which
one is the most killing? An easy mat er.
/ have a record OF a year giving the tenn
perature and climatic conditions OF each
day or group Of days / also have the
deaths of each day and the causes, and
have made from this a table something
after the fashion of Diapers tables.
where by clockwork line marks the rise
and fail Of the temperature any hour in
the day or night.
"What does it shown Why, that certain
climates are deadly and should be avoid
ed. When the weather man announces
that this climate is coming he should
sound the alarm and prepare people for
IL exactly as he warns the farmer OF an
impending frost. In one case he saves the
plants; in another he would save lives.
Interesting? Certainly. and by no means
morbid. When we strike a week OF No,
(molst cold you will see the death line
rise, and the warning should go out TO
those of delicate lungs and hearts or sub
ject to rheumatism. as during such Pc
riod you will find the doctors making out
their death causes almost entirely Of
measles. diphtheria, heart disease and
rheumatism. Any doctor will tell you this.
With No ! weather you will find the doc
tors busy with pneumonia, bronchitis,
grip etc. No. cold and dry Is distin-
guished by its brain diseases: now also
comes whooping cough, and infants are
liable to convulsions.
DRY warm weather will surprise you.
Almost all the suicides, or a great pro-
portion of them, occur then-statlstics
show It; and If smallpox Is around it will
develop with marvellous rapldlty Climate
No is favorable to the development OF
bowel troubles; these prevail, say, in New
York in June, July, August and Septem-
Der, at different periods.
'These periods have been located, ex-
amined and compared year by year and
show an extraordinary state of affairs,
which can be corrected, more or less in
every large city. How? BY having your
weather man give the warning. and then
have as .well-equipped machinery In New
York to fight heat and death as you have
to fight flames and destruction of property
by fire Why, In New York from $500 TO
5000 people die every year from heat
alone. The relation of temperature to
these cases is beyond dispute. Take diar-
rhoeal cases; in the week ending May
In New York there we're eight deaths, and
the maximum temperature was u degrees;
in the week ending July 3 3S2 died, and
the maximum temperature was 100 degrees
There yon are. Now, IL you know II -
a question of heat why net fight II? If the
heat got so intense at any building along
Broadway that the stock was threatened
with destruction The alarm would be SCUM
ded all over the city Engines would rush
to the spot, and the underwriters would
do all eley could to save the goods. But
when the thermometer runs up to 100 de-
grees, ard every one knows that Il moons
sudden death 60 50 many reople in four
months, there is no alarm sounded no de-
partment rushes to the rescue. Why /
don't know, uni IS It may be that IL 5 the
poor who mostly die in this way.
Looking at the question thus you have
a line that we may start at-May, the
healthiest month in The year So we shou q
study May and initiate II in weather an
the year. Starting with minimum death
rate, we find that he line rises gradua ly
until The third week in July VIII ch in go
cites Is generally a season Of disaster
From then 1t decieases-ycu must renem-
Der that / am referring to large cities. II
drops after The third week in August. As
an example, Deaths from germ diseases