Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland].

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903
Date:
1883
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Credit: Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    avail the woak-luiigecl while associated with their latal furce; licuce it happens that tlie lung-tainted are singled out and made to fall victims be/ore their ruthless power. Let us noAV cross over the water-parting, the back-hone of Wales, and descend into the Eastern Avater-shed, where the valleys are watered by the SeA-'ern and its almost innumerable tributaries, Avhcre the might of the Avesterly Aviuds has been destroyed, and their ]puritij alone left to descend and soothe the very lungs that Avould have perished on the Avestern AVatevshcd ; hence it is that in this A-'ast valley from North to South, and from West to East, Ave find none but Ioav mortality districts, except Avhen social causes predominate and counteract all the benign influences of the well tempered climate. If Ave now cross over England to the comparatively flat area bordering the sea of the Eastern comities, there again we find a large and important group of high mortality districts, and coincident Avith this, every facility afforded the Avinds, including the East, of rushing with xiurestrained force over this large tract of country. We thus find that Avhether the land be shelving or Avhether it be flat, so long as no resistance is offered to the Avinds, their force quality exerts its malign influence on all tainted Avith this national disease Avhen ex- posed to it. I Avill noAV direct attention to those parts of England, Avherc the Avinds have not all their OAvn Avay on reaching the coast, when after crossing the level surface of the seas, -at more than express train railway speed—they meet Avith insuperable barriers to their progress in the form of high precipitous cliffs, AA^hich divert both their course and their force upAvard, and thus protect the land behind them from the latter, Avhilst they enable it to enjoy their purity. The precipitous coast lines of the two opposite sides of England, viz.: the extreme IS^orth East and South West, afford a happy contrast to the effects of the shelving, and the flat tracts of Western Wales, and the Eastern counties respec- tively. In fact it Avas the cxtren i cly low mortality from consump- tion Avithin the protective range of the precipitous cliffs of the Xorth Fading of Yorkshire,that first led me to enquire minutely into the cause of the exceptionally low mortality from con- sumption in Scarborough and.the neighbouring districts. In the colored map which I have published and with Avhich I