Excerpt from The Journal of Balneology and Climatology, Vol. 8: January, 1904
What follows will therefore concern certain questions which have long and deeply interested me with regard to the air of the locality in which I have the good fortune to live; a locality the air of which Dr. Ord says is "singularly pure and invigorating," and which Dr. Burney Yeo tells us has "important tonic properties," a locality of which Dr. Ewart wrote that it has a soil drier than almost any other in England, which is the last to be visited by the storms which come to us from the Atlantic, which, owing to the absorbent qualities of its soil, has its land wind more than usually free from moisture, which enjoys almost the full advantage of the warmth of the Gulf Stream, and in this respect excels the more northerly east coast watering places of Great Britain, and against which his only indictment is that it is "hyperventilated," for it is on record that the average number of calm days in the year is only thirty-eight.
That close observer, the late Sir James Paget, said to me nearly twenty years ago that his experience was that many scrofulous patients would get well there when they would not get well elsewhere, though he frankly admitted that he could not say what was the special property of the air. As to its effects he entertained no doubt, and though his claim may not be universally admitted, that point may be waived.
When, eight years ago this Society was founded, I hoped to hear the answer to this problem, but it has not come.
Can we, in the light of the fuller knowledge of to-day, point to facts which may to some extent explain the essential causes of differences of climate, such as do not find full explanation by the barometer, the thermometer, and other ordinary meteorological instruments? For it has been very truly said that just as no two faces are alike, so there are no two places having quite the same climate.
The factors of climate are said to be reducible to: (1) Distance from the equator; (2) distance from the sea; (3) height above the sea; (4) direction of most prevalent winds.
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