Excerpt from Denver Medical Times, Vol. 4
Many houses are built with the floor directly upon the ground, without appearing to be damp to an ordinary observer. Mould is a thing almost unknown in this region.
The evil effects of a damp subsoil have been ably set forth by Dr. H. J. Bowditch, of Boston. To it he largely attributes the frequent occurrence of consumption in those who inhabit many of the old New England homesteads, where the natural dampness of the soil is increased by the house being surrounded closely by shade trees, which, by keeping out the sunshine, still further increase the evil.
To live in a dry house built upon a dry subsoil, is one of the urgent necessities for the consumptive; and upon the presence of this condition may often depend the result of the best directed efforts for his welfare.
Throughout Colorado the soil is dry during the greater portion of the year, and the writer regards this as not the least among its many valuable qualities for the treatment of Phthisis.
The malarial germ, whatever may be its form, finds its natural habitat in damp soils and stagnant pools. Wherever these conditions are present, malarial diseases are rampant. Complete freedom from malaria in all it diverse manifestations, follows as a natural result of the dryness of the soil and atmosphere. In composition the soil is a gravelly loam.
There are reasons for believing that dryness is an unfavorable condition for the growth and reproduction of all disease germs.
(8) Sunshine.
If it be true, as science teaches us, that from the sun this earth derives the source of all its life and power, then roust we find that life to flourish best, other conditions being equal, where sunshine is most abundant.
If we refer to the records of the Signal Service, we will find it there stated, as the result of five years' observations, that there has been on an average, at Denver,Colo., only 46 cloudy days in the year, while 177 days were recorded as clear, and 155 days as fair. At Colorado Springs there were recorded but 43 cloudy days, and at Santa Fe, New Mexico, only 41.
What a record of sunshine is this! Whole months pass with scarcely a cloudy day. More than half the days of the year are classed as clear. If we return to the same record we will find it stated that at New York there were 109 cloudy days, and but 101 which could be classed as clear. Thus we find 2? times as many cloudy days in New York, or Boston, as in Denver.
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