Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

of this fact there is given the evidence of
/ Professor Lowell, who says that there were
among the Auburn school children only two
deaths in six years. An analysis of the dis
eases recorded BY Andrew Holer, the efficient
Steward of the County:. Hospital, will show
the order of diseases among the adults, who
are generally old inhabitants. The most
numerous cases are fever and ague from
the west end of the county The
next are cases of rheumatism from the
mines. The third in order is paralysis the
fourth pneumonia, and the fifth general de-
! bilitv. How far paralysis may be the result
Of former indiscretions / am unable to say,
but its victims are mainly from among the
classes who have been or who are now SUBJ
| iected to great exposures. Those who have
undermined their constitutions by severe
/ usage, of course, are not able to resist the
fierce assaults of pneumonia, while those who
| are now living in tHnnels and mud are especi-
| aIly liable to attack. The sufferers from de-
bility are all old men who have suffered from
the hardships of mining. In all estimates of
the
EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON HEALTH,
The physical results of mining should be
eliminated. Nevertheless, the foohill people
are often scourged by disease. Diphtheria now
and then, though not often, will seize upon a
community and make havoc of the young
Colfax has recently suffered from this terrible
| disease. Pneumonia will now and then de-
stroy its victims in two or three days, and is
not confined to any one locality. Catarrh
occurs in all parts of the county in mild
form. Teamsters who are constantly envel
oped in dust frequently suffer from very
severe forms of the disease, and the young
people who spend their nights in dancing
rarely ever fail to acquire the complaint;
but the people who live carefully and avoid
sudden exposures are rarely ever so afflicted.
In no instance is the disease as severe as in
the valleys, and those who go into the foot
hills with catarrh invariably improve Fever
and ague occurs in all the larger ravines on
the Bear-rlver bottom lands. DR.. Crandall
declared that he had never heard of case of
| fever and ague In Auburn in twenty-five
years, and tie druggist and hospital steward
confirm the assertion. Considerable sickness
prevails in and about Newcastle, and from
there to the Roseville Junction, but the doc
tors declare that it is purely epidemic and
unusual. Very recent investigation con.
vinces that the sickness about and
west of Newcastle comes not from
| irrigation or the bitches, but from the
reservoirs that are used for the purpose
of precipitating the mud. The facts gath
cred during the journeys leading to these ar
ticles prove that the foothills from Newcastle
up to Alta, or from an elevation of $50
feet up to an elevation of 5000, are extremely
| healthful. And constantly occurring in
stances of improvement establish the fact
that there is no better
sANITARIUM
For invalids than the region here spoken of.
Asthma is always rehved so long. as the
patient remains, and in many cases COM
plete cure is effected. Rheumatism is often
cured, and more frequently relieved. A Mr..
Phelps states that he came to Auburn
crutches, and was unable to get out Of a
buggy on account of rheumatism. In three
months he threw away his crutehes, and in a
short time was well. He says he has not had
| twinge of the disease for seven years. The
| oldest and one of the most respected physicians
| in the county tells that he had heard of only
one case of typhoid fever in fifteen years.
DIR. Crandall, who comes of consumptive
family. was given up by the doctors in the
East to die of consumption. He went to
| Auburn rs years ago, and is now, at the age
of ", the youngest man in the town. The
wife of gentleman in Alta was in the.
same desperate condition from consumption
in Illinois. She is now wholly cured, and is
one of the very healthy people of Placer
county. Auburn is becoming well known as
a sanitarium for consumptives. Every year
not less than one hundred consumptives go
there from southern California, and withi1sa
! year the hotel accommodations for this class
of invalids has been more than trebled. The
invalids uniformly improve when they take
| good deal of exercise and pass much of their
time in the open air. The climate of
! the inside of houses is much the
same all the world over, and no one need
expect to improve by remaining indoors
Those who run about during the day obtain
A BLIssFUL SLEEP
During tie foothill nights that ought to cure
even cancer. The records of 1879 show
only one case of blindness and one deaf and
dumb person. In 1873 there were 10
cases of insanity out of a population
of 5000. Three-ffths of these were drunk
ards and solitary sheep-herders and wood
choppers. The vice of solitude was largely re-
sponsibe tor these results. In nearly every
instance they were foreign born. This sub
ject cannot be left without making special
reference to the Placer County Hospital.
DIR; l. Ne Todd is the Surgeon,
and A. Holer the steward, and the
care and treatment is 90 good that
men of means often avail themselves of the
advantages afforded rather than remain at 9
hotel Pay patients contribute $40 per week,
the rest nothing. The grounds comprise so
acres OF good land, and 90 acres are under
cultivation. producing all the vegetables
needed, some of the meat, all the chickens,
eggs and milk, and considerable fruit The
land is
CULTIVATED BY THE PATIENTS,
And the neighboring highways are kept in
perfect repair by the willing toll Of the same
| people, The buildings are beautiful, very at
tractive, and the wards and furniture are all
that the most tastidious physician could de-
sire. The wards accommodate 20 patients
and the average attendance is 554. The cost
of the buildings was about SIS, 900, and the
land is valued at 81 600. Each patient costs
the county, including all expenses, So A. per
week. Such an institution is fair index of
the civilization of people.
A Few remarks about the Indian popula-
ton and the Chinese, and this article shall
ell Sc. In 1S49 or 80 there were, as DIR. Frey
states not less than II 900 Indians in Placer
county. Now there are about 100. Many
of the vigorous young men have gone to other
counties some few were killed by the whites
more were slaughtered in Indian quarrels;
some died from poverty and disease propog2-
ton fell of; children were neglected and
died for want CT care very many were killed
by eating pork (no Indian could eat pork and
live), and many died of pneumonia. Syphi-
lis carried on great numbers. These Indians
are, as they always iwere, degraded people.
They were rarely willing to work, and ever
ready to drink whisky. There are no half
breeds, and there never was much miscegena-
ton. White men who lived with squaws
were ostracized. Married Indian women
guilty of inhdelity were killed. The girls
were considered fair game for everybody, and
| RIGHTEOUSNESS among them was
NOT CONSIDERED DISGRACE.
There is one Indian voter in the county, W
w. Brown by name, who was with Fremont
in one of his expeditions. The Placer In
dams were different from the Eastern In
dams in looks and habits, and many of them
grew very fat-in fact there was tendency
among them towards fairness.
About the year 1874 there were at least
| 5000 Cinnamon in Placer county, but now
there are not more than /, 200-at least this
is the general estimate. They were driven
out Of Roseville and Rocklin by force, and
| the subject is interesting perhaps as having
slight bearing on the future. In the towns
where there are no Cinnamon, aud in places
where their numbers have largely decreased,
no inconvenience is now felt on account Of
their absence. White women began to take
! in washing, and white male cooks began to
appear Immediately, and now the places once
| occupied by the Chinese are all filed by
white and colored people. No one was found
willing to confess that there was a loss in
comfort or convenience caused by the alb
sence OF the Chinese.