Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Cities Are Healthy. [ARTICLE]

Cities Are Healthy.

The doctors occasionally make some pretty wild statements. An authority on the health of cities, for instance, says that If all the human race lived in cities like London, Paris or New York, mankind would become extinct in less than two oenturies. Such statements are the worst nonsense in the world, for as everybody knows the strongest, most athletio specimens of humanity are to be found in the cities, and during the oivll war it was commonly remarked that the men of regiments recruited in large cities could stand more fatigue than those reonjited In the country districts. City life may be more exhausting than oountry Uto, and the average length of life in the cities may be somewhat shorter, but everybody who has tried both knows perfectly well that city food is better prepared and more wholesome than that used in the country, while a regard for sanitation is dally making the condition of life in a large olty more conducive to longevity.