A manual of practical hygiene / by Edmund A. Parkes ; edited by F.S.B. Francois de Chaumont.

Date:
1878
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    Good health may generally be enjoyed by judicious attention to a iw simple rules In the foremost rank should be put temperance, with reguk and industrious habits. European residents on the Gold Coast are too ofte satisfied with wearing apparel suited to the climate, overlooking the fact tfa exercise in the open air is just as necessary to preserve health there as it is i Europe Many of them likewise entertain an impression that the sun's ray are hurtful whereas in nine cases out of ten the mischief is done, not by tM sun's rays but by habits of personal economy. Eeeling sadly the weans<|j sameness 'of life on this part of the coast, recourse is too frequently had I stimulants, instead of resorting to inexhausting employments, the only sail and effectual remedy against an evil fraught with such lamentable con sequences Europeans also bestow too little attention on ventdation, far moK barm being done by close and impure air during the night than is evi brought about by exposure to the night air. Much of the suffering is occasioned by over-feeding. (1. 124.) Sub-Section III.—Cape op Good Hope. Garrison, about 3000 men. , \ ^ i The chief stations are Cape Town (about 45,000 inhabitants), Graham Town Ejn° William's Town, Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, and several sms frontier stations. At Natal there is also a sinall force. The climate almost everywhere good; the temperature is neither extreme nor | variable ■ the movement of air is considerable. At Cape Town the mean annual temperature is 67°, with a mean annul range of about 38° Yeaes. Total Deaths. Admissions. Mean Daily Sick. Days in Hospital to t each Sick Man. 1860-69—(10 years), . . 1869-74—(5 years), . . 10- 87 11- 15 7-30 973-3 1022-1 775-6 50-24 37-68 18-83 17-73 ft Malarious diseases are very uncommon. Continued »ver, ipro-w . ^pffiTJ pre ther largely, especially in some y.rs tjJ is a loll deal of dust in many parts of the colony, and it has been at r bubj to thi^ the disease is probably the specific ophthalmia grey gmnulatiomJ * Considerable interest in this part of thegwas ^J^^l*^! War of 1873, for an admirable account O ^^^1*^^^^ on The excel* ] Sir Anthony D. Home ^f^^S^^^^S to be accomplished wtt ] hygienic arrangements enabled the arduous ^ork ot tie exgea d iU lu, ,K,aths - comparativclybsmall loss But the few ^^^v^^T^ture than those of J disease show by contrast how much more a^W£™eiX>f wounds : 13 men were kUl ] enemy. 26 officers died, of whom only five we re kil led or rt 'td »» 0 , l was kill* \ (white troops), whilst 40 died of disease - of the West J™^^^' j£'}orts, vol. rr< whilst 41 died of disease. For analysis of sod of Gold Coast wAravMu 1 ^ j T0 p. 264, and for some account of the drinking water, see papers by Dr J. V. rieini g xiv. and xv. + Including the detachment at St Helena.