HEAT IS LIFE COLD IS DEATH.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 86, 24 May 1879, Page 2

HEAT IS LIFE COLD IS DEATH.

There is no greater fallacy thin the opinion of many, particularly the young and strong aad vigorous that -rioter—especially a sharp frosty one, with plenty of snow,—is the rooet healthy season : n the year. Very Caw persona aaam. to realise that cold ia the Condition of death, and that in both warm wid oold climates it i* our unoonecious effort to maintain oar bodily heat at a temperature of ninety a at degree* thn f wean to out To I tomperature, c*,llet ' blood-heat," •very enbu inch of oxygen that serve* to vitalise oar blood must be raised by oar own bodily heat, or life ceases. Knot in

ro:d obJU oreeping up t;.e _cok, l-'t biin •.ofly-i auf.*ard .: •;; bottom ;■" the sua si ths baok '■tct'co; and bysc doing ha > illness .'' i: '.OO .e.'-e ■ ■stid medical advico vs. hi ::r-nC I r should never he f:rg:-.-. •. a'.. " aestt ric>ji.'

cold weather tha immtuw of * nfl- 1 <a«ntly elevated bodily temperature be- i eotnea eery often a difficulty too gnat i for our «trwjrth, tin ad not of a severe I winter k really more to be dreaded than a visitation of a peatilenoe The saying, i ** Heat ia life, cold is death,** has a striking illustration and ooufirmatier in the 1 reports now regularly submitted by Dr I 1 Rus»eli to the CH»sgo— Sanitary Com-1 mittee. The death -ati rises end falls i w i(Ji the regularity .! e hormomstar So inunydegroes.es* bee*, sc many more 1 * deaths, and ' vice vecse.' In ona of his i fortnightly reports Dr. Rossell says:- 1 The death rate in the first week of the I fortnight was twenty-one and the second weak twenty-five. The moor, temneratme in the former week was 40 8. Tabrenheit, in the latter 50.5 He attributes the low rate of the first week to the high mean temperature of the o receding fort- : night which w iS 47.3, and' adds" This ; is ». peed illustration nf *. ’a-/ which wo ; frequently -Laervo ia these reports o! \ vjn.pen.tara and doatb rates—that a j • esk of low temperature produces s. i j rise is morta itv tbs week fdl.-w- ' mg ” It. jur climate it would pro-1, | batly be difficult to fine •» more I frequent cause of serious ailments than 1 taking cold. Whatever weak place we! ' have, whatever constitutional disorders wt are subject to, cold will surely dissever V/e taka sold* because our vita- * lit” is too low to ward off the effect* of < tse reduced temperature around us. As ' v matter of firat importance, then, to rail 13* cold and the drangumsnt of tha ays- : tom consequent, it is necessary by proper : nutrition to maintain oar natural animal . heat; second, to retain this beat by a i sufficient quantity of clothing; third, to regulate with care the temperature of the sir we breathe. Contrary to the opinion current among lover* of oc-ld weather a fire in the bedroom in tha winter is cheaper than a doctor’s bil , f;:. owing to our inactive condition duriir; sleep, the circulation r J the vitalising , blood is both alow end imperfect, me.! har.ee the danger of taking coif, by rresih i;;g f.f everything that is boo 1 ?r.yonc conscious J having caugL* .r. fools a