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Show Proof That ForesU Have Hygienic Value We hear much of the Importance of the conservation of forests from sn economic standpoint, but little Is said of the hygienic rnluo of forests. . Forests contribute to the general health by branklng the force of steadily stead-ily blowing rinds. They mitigate the heat of summer by the vast amount of evaporation from their leaves that occurs by day. They also promote rainfalls, jjhua they check the tendency ten-dency of the earth lo desiccate, which Is almost as Injurious to health as It (s to vegetation. Cholera often passes a wooded district dis-trict and revels 'a a treeless one. A certain road In Tndla leads for CO miles through a dense forest Farther Far-ther on It runs foi 00 mlle3 through n barren plain. Hundreds of persons travel the enllre rnd dally. Now, In the first or woodi : section cases of rhotern seldom occur, while within the latter It has been of frequent occurrence. oc-currence. One year cholera raged In Allahabad. Soldiers whose barracks were on a hill suffered the most from the epidemic: those In barracks surrounded sur-rounded by four rows of trees much less; but not a single case was reported re-ported among the soldiers whose barracks bar-racks were in a thicket. It was the same the next year. |