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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8444, 17 May 1907, Page 5

The Christchurch doctors are puzzled at the unusually high mortality rate in Christchurch.. Duringthe past month, without an epidemic, the deaths amounted to 101, as against,69 in Dunedin and 67 in Wellington' One medical man attributes it to the recent dry summer, and declares that wet seasons are healthier than dry. His contention receives some confirmation from the fact that, whereas in the first four months of the present year there were 218 more deaths than in the corresponding period of 1906, the rainfall was 4} inches, as against 11 inches for the first four months last year. Appealing recently for a reversion to a more natural mode of life, Dr. Mason, of the Public Health Department, said the greatest defence against ill-health was fresh air, and the greatest scourge man had to contend against at present was consumption. Last year consumption in England and Wales alone claimed 66,000 deaths. At the sanatorium in Cambridge, in New Zealand, 21 per cent of cures was being effected. Many of the patients went to the institution literally buried in clothes. At first they said they would die if obliged to discard some of their garments, but in time they were found inarching about in the open-air with scanty covering, and rapidly manifesting the benefits of the treatment. His eyes were red, bis noso was blue, He couldn't speak, he'd just say "Tchoo!" And everybody round they knew And pitied him, he had the "fioo," At last he gasped "What shall I do?" And swiftly came the answer, too, Foreaoh one cried "Oh, fool 1 procure A bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Fo Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is lia and 2s (id.