Show for be deseret news AIR AND CLIMATE B BY alexander OTT parity purity of air is of v tal tai importance f r the j healthy condition of an mal mai fife life because it would be an utter impossibility to change the impure venous blood and to arten alize jt it aless the atmo atmosphere is 13 entirely free from nox ous elements the least disturbance of the cle chemical mical equi elul 1 brinn of the air such as the loss of oxy oxygen en the deposition of carbonic acid the peculiar emmit emmil effluvia ivia from the skin and icings lui lur gs tend t 11 i endanger life quite as much as the w 11 lidei deu dei developed eloped of a marshy country hence the impropriety IM of having bad badly ventilated rooms where r you ou are breathing the same sann air again and again the mere inhalation of the breath of mother another person is 13 a very unwise habit halit arid and is often attended with ith deleterious effects as thus contagious diseases are conveyed froin one em cm to the other but that not only confined air may become vitiated and thus bf b a wot bot bed ned ot a variety of complaints compla com plants nl is evident from the remarkable atmospheric and meteorological a during the presence of the epidemic ept epi emic emmic or asiatic cholera scientific observations mafle mafie by the most eminent physicians and savants of europe ue have shown that the air at the approach of that tei ter terrible scourge undergoes great changes the oxygen is more abundant the sky becomes generally azy sometimes misty the atmosphere assumes a grey color which is ap spead ead over the country like a vast pall wita sudden and extraordinary descents of the mercury oscila lohs rons of the magnetic nerdie and high winds its aeling traveling tr kraeling distance which is generally from east to west varies from fron tient to hurt thirty miles a lay day in ift 1830 that fatal malady came from india by the way wai of rusia ru sia turkey and As a minor alinor visited almost every town and villare village in europe till fill it was conveyed to the western western hemisphere at its first appearance it had bad a very sery virulent character thousands were carried off in a few hours and some in a few minutes the peculiar symptom symptoms i of that terrible malady when fully developed are of a truly asiatic character its pogi p ogi ess being rapid and generally fatal unless i prophylactic means are arc y applied the cholera is believed to have originated rated in india a country of a very peculiar climatic c condition the mean temper ture of january in calcutta is 67 I 1 in madras 77 and in bombay dombay 73 the mean temperature tempera turre turee of may which as it it precedes the rainy season is generally the hottest mith mii mil th rt of the yeat year 5 ear in calcutta is 83 in madras 87 and in dombay bombay 85 83 while lil lii ill id new york philadelphia and boston the trean irean temperature of july does not generally genera liy ily exceed au thus showing the difference in the ohe hottest weather to be 15 these facts show th that atthe the average temperature of the coldest months in some of the largest cities in in india is several degrees higher than the average temperature of the hottest month in the large cities or of the united states I 1 I 1 the intensity of heat beat together with the filthy habits of the naive ithe miasmatic and of meph mephitic itic itie exhalations exha lations of stag stagnant llant ilant witter water or putrefactive animal and antl mattir wil to a certain extent account for india being the hotbed hot bed of the mot moa fatal complaints such as ai the white and black leprosy life th e elephantiasis etc it if we recollect that clouds which have beh ach i n formed from the exhalations exha lations of 0 watery vapors in the indian ocean are being wafted wafred by winds a distance of thou thousands ands of miles mile to discharge over the vast continent of india it will not liot appear very strange that strata of vitiated air should be carried over to europe and america it is a well known fact that in italy from lombardy down to province of calabria the most southern portion of the former r kin kingdom of naples the atmosphere during ae the summer season is frequently much diluted with hot air which is beino being being wafted wafred from the great deserts of africa elen even here in our city we often experience on summer evenings adden gushes of warm air being carried as atmospheric waves from the region of the hot r warm brings pr ings and thus thua strongly stringy str ongy charged with the calori caloric c realizing I 1 from these facts the becu peculiar liar ilar traveling property of the air in the sape alape at ape of waves cu rents and clouds which sail through thes the s yand y and the intimate relationship existing in 11 between tt ti e earth and the atmosphere it will vill not ie re difficult to com how certain counti les lea or even locations are subject to the 0 called climatic irregularities resulting in various diseases but not n ot only the irth earth e and arld tho the air but also the latitude and the i elevation above the level of ef the sea influence much the healthy condition of animal and vegetable ilfe lire every one who is fam familiar ilir with physical geography kaw a there being ogreater a greater uniformity of oe climate in the tor id zone than in the temperate 0 o e jn in the fo former riner jiner the rays of the sun are always direct days and nights are equal while in the latter viz in the temperate zone the obliquity of oe the solar bolar rays an arlt arll I 1 the ine vt days ana aha nights are pre dautive of great meteorology mete cal anomalies that Is to say bay much heat beat is being accumulated during the summer and mach cold during the winter Accord according ing inz to experiments made by liebig M damast and the de the tha air oi of different countries when in a state of entire purita contains th same bame proportions of the component elements and only re culiar cullar liar ilar local causes such as marshy a putre fac ive matter etc will materia ly change its true genuine nature but a great deal can be done fone for the physical improvement of a country as is shown in a the case of Ger germany mary rusa a a and some p pr tiong of italy at the tithes time that the legio a of julius cassar invaded ote foe continent of europe the country between the danube and the german ocean was almost looked upon as the ultimo thule thuie or as the borders of the then known world tacitus Tac ittis the historian describes germany atas as being a mist misty mists fogh fogl foggy w syl lyl marshy marby country fu I 1 of stagnant waters and arld mephitic vapors hovering over over the land the sun is seldom seen A country only fit for the barbarous savage antl anil an uncouth tribes of the germans what would the proud an aal noble romans of the classical age agen say if they could behold their on once conquered province ro I 1 ince of germany transformed as it were b the wand of magic macic into a beautiful garden the ch frate healthy and vig rig vi TO rous us and the once savage uncouth and no nomadic mad ic tides tildes with their kindred nations the english arid and americans standing foremost in the museum of mental excellence while tho the he descendants of a cicero cice 0 o horace etc are seen in the filthy garb garbol of beggars in the principal cities of the old and new nev NW v world making their living by playing hand organs and exhibiting tamed monkeys and inal mal for a few cents ce ants r are devastating their beautiful country by brigandage truly a wonderful change by the liebing hewing down ff f forests the drainage of stagnant stae state nant water and the judicious cultivation ti of vast tracts of waste land tand germany was reclaimed from the chaotic and dismal state of barbarism barbaris bar barb 1 laris taris arism |