‘Most impure air. One might expect that, with such an equable 
temperature and generally favorable climate, consumption would 
unknown ; but I found this was by no means the case, though 
is much more common among the Blacks. This is to be ex- 
plained by the racial tendency of Negroes towards phthisis; and 
by the fact that their condition of partial starvation is exagger- 
ated by the unhygienic surroundings of their lives, particularly 
impure air they breathe for half the time. s 
‘ facts are especially instructive, and strongly impress a 
medical observer, The natives themselves trace consumption to 
epee. of the Negroes is really traceable to an inborn savagery 
that neither church nor school nor public opinion—which latter 
nd very weak, however, in its condemnation—has yet been 
to control. It is scarcely necessary to remark that such a 
ud things is not confined to this community; and I only 
“as an explanation of the existence of phthisis as given 
the people themselves. 2 
eti gratifying to add that filthiness is not associated with 
rest that hygiene must condemn. The houses of the Whites 
Mostly whitewashed or painted white, and personal cleanli- 
one all’ classes of the people is so open to observation 
Pay Most decided impression left on the visitor is that © ~ 
ten fot in this instance associated with poverty. Her. 
us inhabitants of this island be considered grossly ignorant | 
a fairly good school on the island, at which both the a 
: the white children assemble ; and a noticeable absence a i 
or supercilious distinctions prevails. There are two  — 
l ifferent denominations, sustained partially by mS- —— 
‘Mort. Their services, both on Sundays and week-days, — oe 
attended by the people of both races, and drunkenness ” = 
ity may be said-to be almost unknown among them. 
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