They do not permit rice to be sown within two miles of the cities, on account of the insalubrity.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
Its past reputation for insalubrity is long since forgotten, and its singular exemption from those epidemic diseases whose ravages have been so terrible in other places, have gained for it a very enviable distinction among cities.
"The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852"
Ben Casseday
See Third Anual Report of Massachusetts State Board of Health for 1873. The causes and remedies of the insalubrity of Rome and its environs have been for some time the object of careful investigation, and many valuable reports have been published on the subject.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh