The Land of the sky, and beyond . a single case of local pulmonary con-sumption. He also called attention to thefigures published in the disease charts of theUnited States Census, which showed thatwhile deaths from pulmonary troubles innorthern New England averaged two hun- deveioped cases of consumption —too late tobe benefited by the climatic cure, which wouldsurely have saved them had they come at the,time the initial signs of the disease showed. themselves. ,- ; The visitor to this region af, once. I a liuiidred foet liigli, and kaleidoscopic clianges from the rugged to the pastor
The Land of the sky, and beyond . a single case of local pulmonary con-sumption. He also called attention to thefigures published in the disease charts of theUnited States Census, which showed thatwhile deaths from pulmonary troubles innorthern New England averaged two hun- deveioped cases of consumption —too late tobe benefited by the climatic cure, which wouldsurely have saved them had they come at the,time the initial signs of the disease showed. themselves. ,- ; The visitor to this region af, once. I a liuiidred foet liigli, and kaleidoscopic clianges from the rugged to the pastoral. dred and fiftv out of every thousand, in Min-nesota and California one hundred and fifty,in Kentuckv and Western Tennessee overone hundred\ the average number in WesternNorth Carolina was but thirty. This percent-age, too, was largely made up from deathsamong those who had come there with well- the electrical bracing air. Why, I feel as ifI was breathing champagne, exclaimed aprominent statesman to the writer during arecent visit. And does it never rain here?he asked. Oh, yes, was the reply, volun-teered by a third member of the group ; butour well-kept statistics show that we have an
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