The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-04-11


the malarial area in the State of
Georgia is less than it is in the State
| of Wisconsin. When our friend heass
people talking about chills end fever
IN some river valley in the South. he
should think of the fever and ague
which he meets in similar places tn the
State of Wisconsin. The difference
between the two States is this: that we
of Georgia have permitted too much
parading of a few sporadic fever cases.
whereas in Wisconsin they have been
passed over as matters of no moment,
so long as the normal death rate was
not affected thereby. Even in the
small malarial belt in Georgia the
death rate will bear comparison with
that of any similar area in the State
| OF Wisconsin. To put this whole
! question in nutshell, there has been
bugaboo kept up, no one knows how,
"a to the existence of fevers in the
| South. If our friend will but look at
the man and see that the Sonth ex-
tends from Chesapeake Bay diagonally
! down to El Paso, Texas, he Will find
that 1T covers much more than 1000
miles. If, for instance, half dozen
/ u,
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 "the
poor South" In the South, as a
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-
tunlty given for breath of fresh air
to strike into the dark corners.
4. Ii our correspondent could only
visit our section, there is not county
III which 1t would not furnish him
with score of centenarians, whose
long lives prove the healthful condi-
tions 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
seventy-tive 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 tue year ronnd is 76 de-
grees above zero. The lowest tenn
perature during the present year was
upon one occasion 30 degrees above
zero. The highest temperature in the
month of July, taking the city of At
lanta MS an example, scarcely ever
passes, for one or two days, "a, while
80 degrees more nearly expresses it
during the three hot summer months.
Added to this there is an absence
of undue humidity, and there also
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 IN ideal region
in which to make q home. There are
schools everywhere. There ia the OPP
portunity to make n living. There arc
good neighbors, all of the advantages
of refined civilization; freedom from
the rigors Of the Northwest, as we'll 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 n
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
are common to each of them.