Mixed.
7th. “Do you consider Florida as healthy as California?”
I consider this Manatee region the sanitarium of the world. A more healthful spot cannot be found on God’s footstool.
8th. “Do malarial fevers prevail in your section any time during the year?”
In the rich, low hammock lands, where vegetation is rank, malarial fevers exist in the fall of the year. Chills and fever here yield more readily to proper medical treatment than in the West. Pine land is exempt from malaria.
9th. “Does the summer heat prove enervating?”
That depends on a man’s constitution. If born tired, yes.
10th. “Is it true that the summer weather with you is more pleasant—less oppressive—than at the North?”
Yes; the thermometer rarely registers more than 96°. It reached that point only twice last summer.
11th. “Are the nights in summer always cool?”