112 REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



The fruit and summer crops were abundant and excellent in quality, 

 and upon the whole, the farmer was well repaid for his toil. October and 

 November were very pleasant, and compensated for the unpleasant 

 weather that preceded them for some three or four months. The Indian 

 summer was much prolonged, and week after week the sun rose from his 

 slumbers with his golden face, and traveled through the hazy mellow 

 atmosphere, shorn of his fiercest rays, sinking at night upon his western 

 couch amid the glories of a thousand sjalendors ; and even stern Winter 

 allowed the genial embraces of summer-like Autumn to encroach upon 

 his season vmtil almost the merry "Christmas bells" admonished him 

 that it was high time that he assumed his sovereign sway and issued 

 mandates from his frigid realms ; even then his freezing, blustering 

 way was tempered with mildness, and the Old Year took his departure, 

 bearins; but few traces of Winter's mark. 



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8. SANITARY CLIMATOLOGY AND ITS RELATIONS. 



Humidity, heat and cold are the sources from which are produced 

 most of the diseases lying within the geographical limits of the North- 

 western States. From what observations have been made, the sanitary 

 division of diseases indigenous to the above region might, with pro- 

 priety, be classified as follows : 



1. Malarious and non-inflammatory diseases, with their associated epi- 

 demics, reaching to the 44th or 45th degree of north latitude, with the 

 summer isothermal of 60°. 



2. Pulmonary and inflammatory diseases, with their associated epi- 

 demics, extending southward to the 30th degree of north latitude, and 

 winter isothermal of 50°. 



All diseases ranging under these classifications, in all degrees of 

 violence, are observed each year by physicians Avho are called uj)on to 

 treat them, and who find that they have an intimate physical relation 

 Avith the seasons, as the isothermal line moves from the south to the 

 north in the spring and early summer, and as it recedes to the south 

 aeain in the autumn and winter. 



Beginning near the middle of June, until the middle of October, all 

 diseases appear to be more or less of a malarious character, and their 

 violence attends a high atmospherical temperature and humidity ; and 

 from that time, or about the first of December, until the following April 

 or May, pulmonary and inflammatory diseases principally exist, on 



