Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-08
WHEELING AS A HEALTH RESORT.

WHEELING As HEALTH hEsOhi.
Wheeling as a summer and health
resort is no joke, as the Register has
had frequent occasion to remark.
/ Many aolks leave town for their
health when they would be better OF
In WheeIing's climate if they would
FOLLOW the same rules of hygiene en-
forced upon them in so-called health
resorts.
AT the recent national convention OF
weather forecast officials DR.. w. NJ.
Wilson stated:
The claims made by promoters of Ger
tain health resorts that the richness OF
the air in ozone, the resinous gasses from
the pines. the peculiar purity of the at
mosphere in a particular locality or the
elevation or aridity of the air acts as a
specific in certain diseases. are not gener-
ally based on scientific investigation. but
have their origin in the fertile brain of the
advertisement writer, or are inspired by
the cupidity of some dishonest or ignorant
physician"
And the eminent physician went on
to say further:
1T is common knowledge that the prin-
clpal components of the atmosphere are
practically in the same proportion the
world over: that the amount of moisture
varies, and that rarefaction results from
an increase of elevation. This tends to-
ward increased lung capacity, but II has
not been shown that excessive humidity
or absence of moisture are specific RENE
dies, or that a rarhed atmosphere is
senTiaret TO che destruction of the germs
of disease.
Persons suffering from tuberculosis
have been as frequently benefited by
residence in a humid atmosphere at
the level of the sea as in the dry and
arid atmosphere of the West That
climatic influences may play an important
party In the curative process is not to
be denied but we must look further than
mere climatic changes for the cause of
cures.
THE human organism is SO complex. so
delicateiy poised, and the relation of mind
10 matter so iuterdependent that environ
ment, whether it he OF climatic or social
conditions, while not acting directly, may
through the senses exert the powerful in
the grave.
.One may fight A winning battle against
disease in almost any climate, whether
1t be in the arid atmosphere of New
Mexico. the soft and genial warmth of
Florida or the rigorous climate of the
New England States"
Practice has corroborated DR.. Wilson.
hat health IS not so much a matter of
climate as Of hygiene. Kew Orleans
was a plague spot until Ben Butler
cleaned Il UP and taught it the lesson
OF sanitation. For the first time in its
history Havana is free from yellow
fever-the change being entirely due to
American methods OF drainage and
cleanliness. The ague Used TO 'oe con-
kidered a Provdentia visitation in In
communities until civilized methods of
sanitation were introduced. And so it
Ia the ord over. If one knows how
TO adapt himself TO a given climate,
nov to dress and how and what to eat,
he can o. as healthy in one place as
another.
The great consideration Is sanitation.
and here is where Wheeling's strong
point as a summer and health resort
comes to the front. The topography of
the city is such that every brisk rain
thoroughly cleans all om highways and
byways and Pushes all our sewers in
less than an hours time. Every good
Shower leaves Wheeling as clean as a
Church steeple.
Add 70 this the fact that we never
have as Aot weather in summer nor as
cofr IN winter as elsewhere In tnls iati-
lure ana II is evident that we have
here at home every requisite of first
class summer, winter and all-round
health resort