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CHAPTER XI. 
Nassau as a Sanitarium. Its Mild and Generally Salubrious Climate. Its 
Freedom from Cold Waves of Air, and Cold Currents of Water. Its Vulner- - 
able Points. No Absorbing and Filtering Sands. Impurities Endangering 
its Water Supply, and Poisoning the Air. A High Degree of Heat in the 
Sun. Diseases upon the Islands. Small but Crowded Human Ant Hills. 
The Yellow Fever in Nassau in 1880. The Pestilence in other Neighboring 
Cities at Other Times. The Angel of Health Rides Upon Hurricanes. Cleans: 
ing the City. Constant Vigilance and Activity of Nassau’s Board of Health 
Essential to its Safety: . Who may Hope for Relief and Curein Nassau. Not 
the Best Place in which either to be very Sick or to Die. Frost a Factor in the 
Problem of Civilization.” Human Development and Progress Dependent upon 
Ice. Sea Bathing all Winter. 
‘The breath of a celestial clime, 
As if from heaven's wide open gates did flow ; 
Health and refreshment on the world below.”—Bryanr. 
Ir Nassau has any great value to the American people, it is as 
ahealth resort. It is claimed to be the ‘‘ Great Sanitarium of the” 
Western World.” Much that is written and published upon this 
subject is inspired by personal interest, and in such cases a one-. ° 
sided and warped presentation of the facts of the case isa natural ~ 
consequence. Many confidently express crude opinions, hastily 
formed, and bottomed upon a few ill-digested surface facts, and 
thus act the part of blind leaders of the blind. We have strongly: 
felt the great responsibility which rests upon those who volunteer 
their advice or opinion in matters so important. 
It is not without a good deal of hesitation that we publish the 
result of our diagnosis of the Bahamas. We mdde the best of 
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