The Archive · 1907

Our Health Sheet

Just now there is a little unnecessary Woie, and a namber bare suddenly The M.-C. herald and S. C. & C. Gazette. left. The health of the place has been relatively good; especially so when it is remembered that a goodly number of those who come here are either tired and run down from overwork, or invalided here to recover and build up lost vitality. Some cases of cholera were reported in some of the surrounding villages, and " few days ago one case of a foreigner occurred among us: the case of man who has suffered from dysentery more or less for about two years, and hence was far from being strong or in a healthy condition. The doctor in charge at once ordered his patients away, with the result that all who were nervous or specially sensitive fat once took fright, and it is reported that over forty left one morning. It was a most unwise thing to do, for they are going into conditions and surroundings on the plain, among residences closely set together, and near a large city where the air is much less pure and bracing than here.

Tt was even reported that there were from thirty to forty cholera cases in some of the nearer villages, whereas inquiry in the nearest village brought out the fact that in most of the near villages there have been as yet no cases, and only a dozen or twenty all told, including deaths and present cases in the village where it has been the worst. Those who have had the good sense to remain, are now entering the period when the greatest benefit and pleasure fare to be derived from a short stay here; for the heat ix beginning to decrease, and the be delightful autumn days

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