. North Carolina and its resources. atter because the climate is not soenervating. Although it must, in candor, be said that malarial diseases occurin certain sections of the State—as they do in many favored sectionsof higher latitude—they are of a milder type, less malignant than inwarmer regions. This class of diseases has, however, been robbed ofits terrors since the recent demonstration of the fact that they arechiefly, if not entirely, attributable to the drinking of surface waterand not to bad air. (For evidence on this point apply to the Secre-tary of the State Board of Health, at Ralei
. North Carolina and its resources. atter because the climate is not soenervating. Although it must, in candor, be said that malarial diseases occurin certain sections of the State—as they do in many favored sectionsof higher latitude—they are of a milder type, less malignant than inwarmer regions. This class of diseases has, however, been robbed ofits terrors since the recent demonstration of the fact that they arechiefly, if not entirely, attributable to the drinking of surface waterand not to bad air. (For evidence on this point apply to the Secre-tary of the State Board of Health, at Raleigh, for a copy of thehealth pamphlet on Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial dis-eases.) It is now practically in the power of every person toprotect himself from malaria, if he desires to do so by confining him-self to the water of cisterns and deep bored wells. And it is to benoted as an interesting fact that some of the more serious and fataldiseases common to every section of the globe, as typhoid fever, for ^. .ffr L. «6m WW % Im, .,/,^ ^u—^
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