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Climatic Treatment of Disease: Western North Carolina as a Health Resort

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  • Bar. Time. ist week — Highest 24.363 Lowest 24.225 " Average 24.285 2d week — Highest 24.303 '' Lowest 24.176 " Average 24.253 3d week — Highest 24.203 " Lowest 23.964 " Average 24.110 4th week — Highest 24.292 Lowest 24.173 " Average 24.228 5th week — Highest 24.254 Lowest 24.036 " Average 24.138 6th week — Highest 24.251 Lowest 24.136 " Average 24.202 7th week —Highest 24.266 Lowest 24.024 " Average 24.137 8th week — Highest 24.236 Lowest 24.070 Average 24.134 9th week — Highest 24.200 " Lowest 24.016 " Average 24.131 10th week—Highest 24.274 Lowest 24.026 ** Average 24.163 nth week—Highest 25.324 " Lowest 23.984 '* Average 24.191 12th week—Highest 24.272 Lowest 23.816 " Average 24.069 Prof. Muttrich, of Berlin, has reached the following conclusion from his forest meteorological researches : " That the forest exercises a positive influence on the temperature of the air; that the daily variations of temperature are lessened by the forest, and in summer more than in winter; that the influence of the leafy forest in summer is greater than that of the pine forest, while in winter the tempering influence of the pine forest preponderates over that of the defoliated forest." So far as I have been able to learn, no studies of a general sanitary character have been made upon this elevated region of the southern Alleghanies. The first writer on the climate of this region was John Rawson, Surveyor-General of North Carolina. Ther. D. K. W. B. 68 65 56 42 6l.2 56.8 67 65.5 57 56 62.7 61.4 66 62 48 47-5 59-5 57-3 6S-5 64.5 5i-5 5°-5 59-6 . 58.1 66.5 63 50 49 58.3 5<i-9 75 65 53 5i-5 59-5 56.8 7° 65 41 39 56.8 58.4 6i,5 44 52-4 64 61 51 50 50.6 55-2 61 62 44 42 56-7 51 64 62 48 44 49-5 51-8 59 58 35 35 47 45
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