The evening times., 1899-08-05
FEWER VICTIMS OF Heat
The Present Season Remarkabl.
Free From Sunstreke Cases.
Although the Hospitals Made the
UsuaI Preparations fer Such I'm
fortunates, They Have Not Been
Busy Explaining why People
Escape Prostration This Year.

According TO statements received from
reliable sources there have been fewer
cases of sunstroke in this city during the
present season than for the corresponding
period Of a number of years past. Pros
trations by the heat have been regarded
as a necessary result OF summer tempera-
Ore for a long time past and the hot
weather that has prevailed through most
of the season has made hospital authori-
ties especially alert for these cases. Their
preparations for the reception of victims
Of Old Sol have been for the most part
Hnneeded. however. as there have been
very few cases and none of them serious.
II is difficult TO account for this and
some OF the surgeons in the hospitals give
the matter up in despair. They do not
try to account for il, there have been few
caess and they are thankful. The why's
and wherefores of il they do not care to
take into consideration. Il Is too hot,
they say, to bother the mind with super
nuous matters of this character. There are,
however two or three persons who have
given their attention to the matter and
who. in the absence of statistics, have
tried to figure out why such a condition
exists.
--Sunstroke is g very peculiar thing,
one of these observers told reporter for
The Times today 1t has curves that We
cannot get the run of somehow, and yet
We know that it is produced by sort Of
fever OF the brain which comes from toO
long Sn exposure to the rays OF The sln-
But Ike lightning, il strikes IN pecu lar
ways. Now. ! know a man who Is out IN
the broiling sun all Of the time He spends
the entire day on the street and never
heard OF his getting a sunstroke. But
colored laborer, who spends d great
deal OF time in and out OF newly
erected buildings, will keel over and
be sent TO the hospital. Even the
coIored brother is a little less suscep-
tible this year however, and that make
US all wonder. There is only one way
can account for it, IL seems that a man
who is in good health and whose brain Is
not depressed, but active in tie conduct
of business, will not get sunstrOke, Will:
another person with sluggish brain vi l.
Now, everybody is feeling better this year
than they have for some time. They arC
convinced that the country Is not going u
the 'deminition bow-woss' after all, an.
they are happy accordingly. Business /!
better and almost every man who want
work can get il. Therefore, the people "a,
not depressed and their minds are in
normal condition. They keep their ten
per and are not standing around the bulle
Tin boards half of the time waiting 10
news from the frent.
You see a man has no time TO think o
heat prostration and therefore there ar
none or comparatively few cases. That
the only way can account for the decreas
in the ailment and 1 have been patien
watcher of the HOSPITALS too.
A person who knows something about tn
methods of treating heat prostrations 1
hospitals from actual experience said sh
thought that probably the return Of pros
psrity had something 10 DO with the de
crease in the cases People with clear an
untroubled minds are not apt 10 take su
stroke easily, she said. and that is probabI
the reason why there have been fewer case
this summer.