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Title: Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical Association.
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: American Climatological and Clinical Association
Subjects: Climate Medicine
Publisher: (Philadelphia) American Climatological and Clinical Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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uperior, as lateas June. Lakes Michigan, Erie and Ontario are more southerly, buttheir shores are low and the skies are notably cloudy. The authorhas experience of the cold fogs of Lake Superior in July andAugust, and was impressed with their penetrating quality. A sum-mer spent on both the northern and southern shores of Lake Supe-rior was wonderfully exhilarating; the air has a purity and stimulussuch as one might expect from millions of miles of forest round-about. But not a single place on that vast shore can be recommendedas a residence for a tuberculous patient. The vicissitudes of theweather are such that the approved methods of cure could not wellbe carried out. 1 Trans. Natl Ass. for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 1906. 3 To constitute a cold wave, so called, there must be a fall of twenty degreesor more in twenty-four hours, free of diurnal range and extending over anarea of at least 50,000 square miles, the temperature somewhere in the area going as low as 360 F.
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NO. I AIR AND TUBERCULOSIS—HINSDALE 61 In the location of the state sanatorium for tuberculous patientsin Minnesota, an interior and northerly location was wisely chosen,150 miles south of Lake Superior, at Lake Pokegama, near the head-waters of the Mississippi. The Wisconsin State Sanatorium has been located on Lake Neba-gamon, thirty miles from Lake Superior. Such small lakes as Lake Pokegama in Minnesota; the MuskokaLakes in Ontario, where the Canadian National Sanitarium Associa-tion has established two sanatoria for consumptives ; and the SaranacLakes in the Adirondack Mountains, have no such power to modifythe qualities of the atmosphere. Whatever influences are attributa-ble to these smaller bodies of water are small, compared with thatof the forest and mountains. Undoubtedly a small lake is a desir-able feature in connection with a sanatorium, as it provides sourcesof amusement throughout the year and adds greatly to the beauty ofthe landscape. The writer spent six summers a

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