CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-25
NO DISEASES
OF LOCALITY

VI IOOdIIII
OF the great number of people that
have visited Canon City and vicinity
from the Eastern states the past sum-
mer 1t is safe to state that a yery
large majority have carried home
with them an excellent impression of
the community and the people with
whom they have been brought in con-
tact. and that some of them will re-
turn here, sooner or later. and become
bona fide residents of Colorado.
Although great admirers of the
Landscape, the fertility of the soil.
under the influence of irrigation, the
people, and the superb summer climate
they found here, many of them be-
came imbued with the very erroneous
idea that typhoid fever was peculiarly
prevalent here, and that pneumonia
contracted here during the winter
months was almost sure TO prove fatal
to the victim of the disease.
Just why 80 many of our visitors
should fall into this delusion it is
impossible to imagine. the most
plausible theory being the belief was
preconceived and brought. with them
to Colorado. So far as typhoid fever
is concerned there has probably been
no more deaths here from that cause
during the last six months than in
other towns its size elsewhere in the
United States, although it is possible
that the number of cases of that kind
reported to the Board of Health was
somewhat greater than usual. The
fatality from typhoid fever in this
valley this year has been far below
that of many communities in Illinois,
Iowa and Indiana, which are As free
from the ravages of the disease as any
territory of equal area in the Union.
During the month of August there
were ninety seven cases of typhoid
fever IN Denver, according to the re-
port of the secretary of the Board of
Health of that city. of which seventeen
of them proved fatal The per cent
of deaths in this instance is an un-
usually high one and is only to be
accounted for on the supposition that
many OF them were of the poorer class
of people and Were unable to obtain
proper care and attention.
There have not been more than
half dozen deaths in Canon this
season from typhoid fever, although
the number of those that have been
afflicted with the disease. was many
times as great.
As TO pneumonia we are assured it
is neither more common or more fatal
in Canon City than it is in ST. Louis
or Chicago or the contiguous territory.
1t is neither more easily contracted,
nor more fatal in its consequences
here than it is in the country between
the western slope OF the Alleghanies
and the eastern base of the Rocky
mountains, although the facts are not
in accord with the popular belief.
If there is slightly increased ratio
in the death rate here over n few of
the more favored places in the MIS-.
sissippi valley, it is attributable, so
the doctors say, TO the fact that many
of the patients are brought TO Canon
from Leadville, Cripple Greek and
other towns high up in the mountains
for treatment
There Is no more pneumonia here
than there is At places located at ele-
vations varying from 500 to 1000 feet
above the sea, nor is the. death rate
any higher.
There are 10 diseases of locality
here, the so called mountain fever,
being a form of typhoid, and is pro
duced from precisely the same causes.
Canon City is about the healthiest
community in about the healthiest
state in the Uuion, and people who
desire to come here should not be de-
TERED by reports to the contrary, or
influenced by pVeconeeived ideas,
which in nine cases out Of ten, are
based upon false premises.