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Show CLIMATE AROUND TONOPAH. Torrid Days and Arctic Nights Cause Many Fatalities. Carson, Nev., Jan. IS. Dr. Lee of this city, who went to Tonopah as a member of the state board of health to investigate the cause of the many deaths in that place, has filed a report re-port with the governor. The doctor made a careful examination of the conditions as well as of the disease itself. it-self. The latter he diagnosed as a malignant form of pneumonia, complicated compli-cated with congestion of the liver and weakness of the heart. The disease is similar to that epi demic in Bodie. Candelaria and Hamilton Ham-ilton during the first years of their existence, and is undoubtedly largely influenced by the extreme dry atmosphere at-mosphere and high altitude. He found great extremes in temperature at Tonopah To-nopah within a short space of time. During the day the mercury registered regis-tered above 80 and at night it dropped to 5 and 7 below zero. Miners more than, any . other class were affected, and those of Tonopah, like others, were not careful at all, subjecting themselves to exposure that might have been less dangerous in a more uniform climate, but which was oftener fatal in Tonopah. Again, as in all new camps, working men congregate around bar rooms and other oth-er hot fires in the evening, only to go out into the cold without overcoats and without protection at all against the extreme cold. - |