Last time’s quote was from an anonymous personal source . . . This time, let us look at what the great writer Charles Dickens wrote after visiting St. Louis in 1842:

 ”No man ever admits the unhealthiness of the place he dwells in (unless he is going away from it), and I shall therefore, I have no doubt, be at issue with the inhabitants of St. Louis in questioning the perfect salubrity of its climate. . . . It is very hot . . .”