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being ozonized by the close prox- 

 imity of the sea, and deriving salu- 

 brity from the neighboring pines. 



Within the township are thirteen 

 fresh water lakes of great depth, 

 from five to forty acres in extent, 

 and fed by flowing springs. One 

 of these, Highland Lake, is the 

 source of our water supply. I give 

 below the official analysis of this 

 water, supplied by the State Chem- 

 ist of Florida, Prof. Norman Rob- 

 inson. 



Amount of solid matter 1.79 grs. 

 per gallon, the constituents being 

 as follows: 



most other cities, the water of 

 London containing eleven times, 

 that of Paris six and a half times, 

 and that of Chicago five times the 

 solid matter per gallon found in 

 that of Orlando. 



Dysentery and cholera infantum, 

 the scourges of so many sections, 

 are almost unknown in Orlando. I 

 have not seen, nor do I know of, a 

 single case of cholera infantum dur- 

 ing my long residence here. I saw 

 one case, brought here from west- 

 ern North Carolina in a state of 

 collapse, which quickly recovered. 

 The dread disease, diphtheria, is 



Grannie matter 42.09 per cent. 



Sodium chloride 24.15 



Potassium chloride 580 



Magnesium chloride 5.01 



Calcium sul phate 6 40 



Calcium Carbonate a20 



Iron oxide 4.60 



Carbon dioxide 3.61 



Phosphoric acid 042 



Silica 3.62 



Loss undetermined, etc 1.10 



From the foregoing table it ap- 

 pears that the mineral matter con- 

 tained in a gallon of this water is 

 1.04, and the organic matter 0.75 

 grains. The water of Orlando, 

 therefore, is superior to that of 



WINTER PARK, ORLANDO, FLA. 



seldom met with. 



I have never 



seen a case. 



Scarlet fever is of so mild a type 

 that it takes an expert to diagnose 

 it, and the physicians are rarely in 

 harmony in regard to it. It is not 

 a fatal disease here, and has never 

 been an epidemic. 



Typhoid fever is infrequent and 

 mild as compared with other sec- 

 tions, and is seldom fatal. There 

 has never been an epidemic or an 

 endemic of it in the city. Pneumo- 



