Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

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the Aalarial area in the State OF
GeorgAis less than it is in the State
OF WlscNsin. When our friend hears
people Nkinr about chills and fever
IN some r. alley in the South, he
should TIL Of the fever and ague
which ne meEs in similar places tn the
State OF Wis0nsin. The difference
between the tM States is this: that we
of Georgia havepermittsd too much
parading Of a few Vporadic fever cases.
whereas i'll Wisconln they have been
passed over as matt,gs of no moment.
SO long as the norman death rate was
not affected thereby Even in the
small malarial belt il, Georgis the
death rate will bear COMPARISON with
that of any similar area N the State
of Wisconsin. To put Ms whole
question in nutshell, there has been
bugaboo kept up, no one knows how,
al to the existence of ieyers IN til
South. If our friend will but looE d
the man and see that the South e.
tends from Chesapeake Bay diagonally
down to Eel Paso, Texas, he will find
miles. If, for instance, half dozen
cases should occur in this vast ares.
what cause would that be for alarm?
Yet when these half dozen cases do
occur, they are heralded forth by the
press, and people abroad hold up their
hands and pity the people of s'the
poor South. III the South, as
whole, there are no diseases which do
not come to every other section of the
country. There is not day in the
South when the whole house cannot
be thrown open to the breezes, which
is the first requirement of sanitation,
while in Wisconsin there are weeks
and months when the house is kept as
tight as book, and there is no oppor.
tunity given for breath of fresh all
to strike into the dark corners.
6. II our correspondent could only
visit our section, there is not q county
in which it would not furnish him
with q score of centenarians, whose
long lives prove the healthful condi.
tons under which they have lived.
1t is daily matter for the Constitu.
ton to receive news of the death of
people who have passed the century
mark, while the patriarchal age Of
seyenty-five is so common that it ex-
cites no comment whatever. The man
who would be lazy or INDECENT in At.
lanta, for instance, would be equally
lazy in the city of Milwaukee. There
would be no cure for such a one. The
air is bracing while not cold, neither
inclining to tropical heat nor frigid in.
tensity. 1t is that happy medium
which keeps the blood in good circu-
lation and inspires one to activity and
industry. The average temperature
OF Georgia the year round is 76 de.
grees above zero. The lowest tenn.
perature during the present year was
upon one occasion 20 degrees above
zero. The highest temperature in the
month of July, taking the city of At
lanta as an example, scarcely ever
passes, for one or two days, 81, while
50 degrees more nearly expresses it
during the three hot summer months.
,s A slasssie Il this there is an aksenes
prevail pleasant breezes to do away
with the intensity of such heat as we
have. The nights are pleasant and
cool, generally calling for some cover.
7. From what has already been
stated, it may be readily imagined that
the South, being the garden spot of
the world, is certainly an ideal region
in which to make home. There are
schools everywhere. There is the OPP
portunity to make living. There are
good neighbors, all of the advantages
of a refined civilization; freedom from
the rigors of the Northwest, as well as
from undue heat. OF course, as to
the question of moving, every man
has certain matters of business to de-
eide in connection Herewith. The
discovery of suitable location in
which to establish business is some
thing which, of course, must be a
matter of inquiry with each one.
Knowing the situation in Wisconsin as
the Constitution does, it would have
no hesitation in recommending a re-
moval to almost any part Of Georgia,
or of the adjoining States. All of the
advantages of which we have spoken
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