Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Cities Are Healthy. [ARTICLE]

Cities Are Healthy.

Tho doctors occasionally inako 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, Earls or New Yorti, mankind would become extinct In less than two centuries. Huoh 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 eivll war It was commonly remarked that the men of regiments recruited in large cities oould stand more fatigue than those recruited In the country districts. City life may be more exhausting than oountry life, and the average length of life in the oltles may be somewhat shorter, but everybody who has tried both knows perfeotly well that city food is better prepared and more wholesome than that used in the oountry, while a regard for sanitation Is dally making the condition of life In a large olty more oonduclve to longevity.