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ATLANTIC HOTEL, MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
M □ REHEAD CITY, N , C4
AS A HEALTH RESORT,
The proprietors take great pleasure in submitting the following let¬
ter from Dr. R. B. Haywood, a physician of forty years standing.
Dr. Haywood is an ex-Prcsident of the North Carolina State Medical
Society, President of the Raleigh Academy of Medicine, President of
the Raleigh Board of Health, Physician to the North Carolina Insti¬
tution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and Consulting Physi¬
cian to St. Leonard’s Hospital :
Raleigh, N. C., February 20th, 1885. ,
R. B. Raney, Esq. :
My dear Sir: Your favor of yesterday, requesting my views on the
health fulness of Morehead City after another season spent at the Atlan¬
tic Hotel, is to hand.
In my opiniou it is the healthiest place on the continent, and it will
be apparent to any one, when I say that I have spent July and August
of the last four summers at the Atlantic Hotel, and during that time
eleven thousand two hundred and forty-six were registered at this
hotel and not a single death occurred in that time. I will go further,
and sav that but two cases of malarial fever occurred in the four vears,
and they were landed from a steamer from the Tar River. There was
last season a daily average of sixty children in the hotel and but two
of these required medical treatment.
My views on the climatic treatment of consumption and kindred
diseases, after further experience and investigation, are fixed and unal¬
tered. I have now the same views I expressed in my letter to Dr.
Brooks and to the New York Medical Record , as published in- your
last year’s circular. The last and most able work on the practice of
medicine, issued from the medical press, is by that eminent physician,
Alfred L. Loomis, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Pathology and Prac¬
tice of Medicine in the Medical Department of the University of New
York. If he had had Morehead in his eve he could not have described
a place fulfilling more thoroughly the requirements laid down by him
for the government of consumptive patients. He says, “Those patients
who ddvelope consumption after middle age, and are incapable of much
