Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-10
rain they sometimes overflow. For TINS
oxidation provides for the consequences, but
THE TIME MUST CONE

rain they sometimes overflow. For tins
oxidation provides for the consequences, but
THE TIME MUST CONE
OF necessity when this safeguard will cease 10
protect rs. There is limit to the oxidiEiBg
power of the soil. For thirty years the syE-
tenn mas been going on; pit after pit dug and
hlled and new ones dug and illed, snd 80 on
over and over again until some twenty foot lots
have hslf their suffice thus appropriated.
The low site Of the city, the obstac es to deep
sub soil drainage, high level of the ground
watey, with no outlet save by subsi 3enee Of
the river, all make toe coil hold in itself the
elements Of causes of malerial diseases, Az
with Stun bsring volcano emily the concur
renee of favorable eircumst snees il Ii edsd to
bring on tbs explosion. The soil is polluted;
it vitiates the air the shallowmslt Of cellars
become the medium for conveying it to the
rooms Of tee house. There is 10 sufficient
effect Of the north winds uprn the sanitary
condi ions. Tables furnished by Sergeant
BarwiCk, Of the sigma Service, are cited in
support.) The Temperature OF the atmos-
phers seems 10 be only slightly responsible
for the iusanitary coAdiliano Of the four months
undsr notice. Here, deaths among tie aged
ara more frequent in cold and damp
weather Tbs deaths by old sge do
NOT the doctor thinks, affect he question
mento materially, There is n more substan.
tel foundation Tor the opinion that the in
crease CT mortality may sustain ? relstion to
the naiur@l increase among children. In
1881, Of 154 deaths. 43 were Of those under
II 1882, of 162. 80 wese under IL The
percentage to the total deaths being % in
1881, and so s in 1882 In 1881 there we're
o 126 children under IL. and 6.jl7 in 1882.
The percentage of deaths &c those ages to tie
Juvenile population, therefore, was about 27
in 1881, and .26 il 1882. The increase of
population under IL years of age was 1871 (;
between 5 and II there is sn increase of 5s7,
but OF those uLdsE years there is falling
off Of 1913.
as re REMEDIES
For errors in our system, the doctor suggests
proper attention TO house drainage and
plumbing; oemen ed fl lors TO ceilars to pre-
vent pollu ion of the ground air Of houses
better still, covering Of the cement with
cosl-iar pitch in which bricks are set on edge
sad tie space between filed with the like
material, ard the whole covered as recon-
mended oy Professor Chandler. tGemented
cesspools, says the doctor, in private CONVEX
sation with our representative, and frequent
cleanings, will go far to alleviate tie c;ss-
pool evil and prevent s@turati0n OF the soil.
The disease that visited Sacramento in the
letter part Of 1882, as well as other places,
possibly was the fleet of al epidemic wave
which, coming in cycles, sweeps over cities
aud continents, bidding defiance 10 al efforts
to divert is.
In note added 10 bis paper, DIR. Hatch
says he has since compared Sacramento NOR
tally records If 1879 and 1892 II 1879 in
September, there were 50 deaths; October.
40; November, % December, 81 (; total,
176 for four months annual death rate, 20 so.
For thu same months 10 1882 it was only
% 6S Census population IN both csses.l
Typhoid and typho- malarial fsyers were re-
sponslble fer % deaths, the greatest number
being II in October yet these fevers were
extensively prevalent in the latter part Of
toat year.
The mean monthly Temperature for 1879
was 90 So and raiifsl 06 inches. For Oc-
tober. temperature, 6l'; rainfall. SIS inches.
Fer November, temperature, so Sc; rainfall,
05 inches. For December. temperature,
43 70 rainfall, 3.4l inches. For 1882 first
rain, September 18th, 81 inches; second, on
the 30th, 90 inches total, 81 inches.
Mean temperature for the month, 6S l..
From October LIST to 18th, 2 60 inches of rain
fell, being the total for the month mean
temperature was So A.. After the rain of the
18Th the mean daily temperature huctuated
from 81 % 10 little below 64', until on the
3lst it fell to 1877 In November, 1882, 3 10
inches of rain fell to the 9th inclusive .05
inches on the 2lst, and Oh inches CT the
81 b total, 5 Y inches. Mean temperature,
40 81. In December the rainfall was lis
inches mean temperature, 1872.
Mean temperature fall of 1879 .................o1
Mean temperature fall of 1882 .tS.S
Rainfall tall Of 1879. ...............2 g3 inches
Rainfall fall of 1882 ...............642i inches
DAYS Of rain fall Of IS
Days Of rain fall OF 1882. 10
So the drier season of 1879 gave greater
mortality. This is especially thus of Septem-
Der. But in the more humid months cf 1882
typhoid and typho-malarial forms we're more
prevalent