88 CLIMATE OF MOGADOE. ca. it. 



himself during- his residence in South Marocco. His 

 premature death, from an illness contracted during a visit 

 to France in 1875, has been a serious loss to the country 

 which he had made his second home. 



Amongst other items of information, we owe to M. 

 Beaumier a series of meteorological observations carried 

 on at Mogador with a single interruption for nearly nine 

 years, and supplying all requisite particulars for eight 

 complete years. The results are so remarkable that they 

 have attracted the attention of many physicians, and may 

 probably lead at some not distant date to the selection of 

 this place as a sanitarium for consumptive patients. 



Dr. Thevenin mentioned several facts of much interest 

 in their bearing on this question. In the first place, 

 phthisis is all but completely unknown among the inhab- 

 itants of this part of Africa ; while in Algeria cases are 

 not rare among the natives, and in Egypt they are rather 

 frequent. In the course of ten years he had met but five 

 cases among his very numerous native patients, and in 

 three of these the disease had been contracted at a dis- 

 tance. He further mentioned several cases among Euro- 

 peans who had arrived in an advanced stage of the disease, 

 on whom the influence of the climate had exercised a 

 remarkable curative effect. 



An examination of the tables, showing the results of 

 M. Beaumier's observations, and especially those for tem- 

 perature, may help to explain these facts, as they certainly 

 show that Mogador enjoys a more equable climate than 

 any place within the temperate zone as to which we possess 

 accurate information. 



It should be mentioned that these observations were 

 made with good instruments, suflSciently well situated on 

 the shady side of the open court-yard of the French Con- 

 sulate, about thirty feet above the sea level. The hours of 

 observation were 8 a.m., 2 p.m., and 10 p.m. — not perhaps 

 the best that could be selected, but sufficient in a climate 

 where rapid transitions are unknown. 



