The reason given for the change of place was still, as before, the unhealthiness of the air about Westminster; and doubtless it was a very true reason.
Even when the new Parliament met at Westminster on the 6th November it was obliged to adjourn to the City of London on account of the unhealthiness of the air.
Some persons have attributed the cause of unhealthiness to the existence of the trenches made by the Turks during the siege in 1571, which are considered to emit malarious exhalations.
The unhealthiness of this locality must be extreme during wet weather, as it is only suitable to the constitutions of frogs and ducks.
There is unfortunately a serious drawback in the extreme unhealthiness of this otherwise invaluable situation, Famagousta, which would at present render it unfit for a military station.
These emigrants were very unfortunate: they arrived just at the commencement of the rainy season, the damps of which were much increased by the unhealthiness of the low, marshy ground of the Sherbro.
They had now been at Puerto Bello fifteen days, in which time they had lost many of their men, both by the unhealthiness of the country, and their extravagant debaucheries.
The whole class of zymotic diseases--diseases which constitute the true gauge of the healthiness or unhealthiness of a community--received a rapid and immense development.
Even when an unmistakable cause of unhealthinessis discovered, and steps are taken to remove it, the process of applying the remedy is slow and uncertain.
This circumstance may contribute its agency to the unhealthiness of the place in summer.
Owing to the unhealthiness of the climate in the neighbourhood of Lake Ontario and the river St. Lawrence, I had a breaking out in the face, which ultimately increased to a scab on the chin, and of which I did not get rid for several months.
The unhealthiness of the situation, together with that of the autumnal season, and an intemperate indulgence in fruits and wine, soon brought on an epidemic among the soldiers, which swept them off in great numbers.
This is imputed to the illness of their general, D'Aubigny, occasioned by the extreme unhealthiness of the climate.
The reputed unhealthiness of the town of Victoria has deterred many from coming over from Macao for the present, who otherwise contemplated establishing themselves on the island.
But, even there, none is permitted to be grown within a circuit of several miles of the city, owing to the unhealthiness which it would produce.
The germs of disease were planted in their bodies before the men returned to the harbour of Hong-Kong; and, therefore, an undue stress was laid at the time upon the unhealthiness of Hong-Kong itself.
The mere temperature of a place, as shewn by the thermometer, is neither an index to its unhealthinessor otherwise, nor to the actual sensations produced by it upon the human body.
Ignorance mistakes the effect for the cause, and the absence of this bird may have been supposed to be the occasion, not the consequence, of the unhealthiness of particular localities.
Then in the unhealthiness of the climate there is nothing to be dreaded for such artizans as masons and carpenters, whom it would be necessary to send out from Europe.
By this means may be avoided the village of Chagres, situated at the month of the river of that name, but of which the real unhealthiness has been so much exaggerated, as to create an unfounded alarm among too many travellers.
Garella is convinced, as much by his own observations, as by the information that he has been able to obtain upon the spot, that all that has been said of the unhealthiness of the Isthmus has been exaggerated.
The principal difficulty anticipated in the execution of the work, arises from the unhealthiness of the climate on the Atlantic side of the isthmus--a difficulty to which the writer is by no means insensible.
A rapid postal communication is hereby secured: but the extreme unhealthiness of the northern foot of the mountains effectually precludes all other intercourse for nine months in the year.
There can, I think, be little doubt that much of the unhealthiness of the garrison depended upon local influences.
The court has gone to Buonavista, on account of the unhealthiness of Porta Praya, at this season of the year.
The origin of this town, as the natives say, was very small, only having at the beginning, by reason of the unhealthiness of the air, but six or seven fishermen who inhabited it.
There would be in this place a much greater number of Portuguese if it were not for the inconvenience, and unhealthiness of the air, which is hurtful not only to strangers, but also to natives of the country.
At the end of 1748 he left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal, which from the unhealthiness of its climate was a terra incognita to naturalists.
The unhealthiness of Batavia, arising from stagnant canals, bad drinking-water, and adjacent swamps, has often been erroneously considered to extend to the entire island.
Formerly, this structure included the tribunals, bank, and foundling-hospital, but the unhealthiness of the city has caused the removal of those institutions to the elevated suburb of Weltevreden.
Combined with Celtic melancholy and dreaminess, he had also inherited, without doubt, some unhealthiness of mind.
After his attack of fever, unable to regain his strength owing to insufficient food and the unhealthiness of the part of the city where he had elected to live, Hearn's eyesight became affected.
The rain-water does not percolate far, for the clay retains it about two feet beneath the surface: this is a cause of unhealthiness to man.
Under such circumstances life becomes a misery, and important results can hardly be looked for when one's vitality is preoccupied in wrestling with the unhealthiness of the situation, day and night.
Finally, the general unhealthiness of Munich cannot be questioned, since statistics show that nearly fifty per cent, of the children born there die in infancy, and that the death-rate for the whole population is nearly forty in a thousand.
It is now time to speak of another principal cause of the unhealthiness of Munich, perhaps the most important one of all--the water.
Another cause of the unhealthiness of Munich is the nature of the soil.
The self-fertilised plants showed no sign of inheriting the precocious growth of their parents; this having been due, as it would appear, to the abnormal state of the seeds from the unhealthiness of their parents.
