Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-21
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Yellow Fever-Vaccinatio
ity for March,

The State Board of Health met at the
Office of DR.. Hatch, in this CITY,. Friday
evening Present-Doctors Gibbons, Orme
Crowder, Briceland Cluness and Hatch
Also, Governor George Stoneman. DR.
Briceland asked to be transferred from the
Committee on Salubrity of Public Institu-
tutions. etc, to some other committee. Lo-
Gated as he was, his means of obtaining in
formation upon the subjects referred to
him were limited After discussion, and
on motion, the Secretary was instructed to
act in conjunction with Dr. Briceland, and
with him draft a series of questions en-
bracing the subjects upon which Informal
ton is desired, and to have the same print
ed and mailed to the proper persons,
requesting an early answer
DIR. Orme introduced the subject of vel
low fever and spoke of sundry sensational
articles in the newspapers of Los Angeles.
calling upon the State Board of Health to
establish an immediate quarantine at
Yuma. He had endeavored to allav the
excitement, after taking some pains to as
certain the truth of the rumors
A somewhat lengthy discussion ensued. in
which the subject of yellow fever was re-
viewed. The Secretary was requested TO
obtain information from Guavmas as to
present danger from that source. and TO
keep himself in communication from time
to time with proper persons in the south,
SO as to receive early information of threat
ening danger. The Secretary read letter
from DR.. Price, of Yuma, giving a state
ment of the situation there, and of the diff
Guilty to be experienced in the inspection of
passengers by the cars, in consequence of
recent changes in the time of the arrival at
that point. The Board finally decided to
establish an inspection station at lndio,
whenever such a measure should become
necessary, and to inform DIR. Price that
they should require his services at that
time.
The Secretary also read a communication
from Surgeon-General J. b. Hamilton, of
the [. ). NJ. II. s., giving information of
the healthiness of Sonora, Mexico, up to
February %. 1884
The subject Of vaccination was intro
duced by DR.. Orme prolonged discussion
ensuing as to the danger to be apprehended
from an invasion of smallpox, and the
relative merits of bovine and humanized
virus. The opinion was generally expressed
that eighth-day' lymph taken from a
healthy child was equally safe and etfica-
ciouS with the bovine, and much more
likely to be successfully applied The Sec
rotary was instructed to prepare another
edition of his circular on vaccination for
general distribution.
The Permanent Secretary. Dr. f. W
Hatch, in his monthly circular to the
State Board of Health for March says:
The total mortality of the month of March in
twcnty-one localities, was 800. The population
being 373, 900 the annual death-rate is reckoned
at 17.51 The four principal cities reporting are
san Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and Stock
ton, with an aggregate population of 900, and
an annual death-rate of 1924 This leaves the
remaining seventeen towns. with population
of 5O,500 and n death-rate of HIP.
OF the total of 30 deaths, consumption caused
III, or 20OS per cent: the acute pulmonary dis
eases 60 or 12.43 per cent; and typhoid and
liberia is responsible for eight deaths Group for
fire and Scarlatina for jour. Three of the latter
are credited to San Francisco and one to Grass
Valley, in the mountains.
The sickness cards report scarlatina from only
one lOcality-Redding. Measles. though not
appearing in the death-record is reported from
Modesto Napa and Redding At Napa City DR..
Pond reports il endemic. WhOoping-cough is said
to prevail at Vallejo and Dixon.
Typhoid and typho-malarial fevers are men
toned rs prevailing TO some extent ut Modesto,
Arbuckle, Antioch and Sacramento, in the val
ley; LakepOrt, in the Coast Range mountains,
and Vallejo. near the coast.
Pneumonia and bronchial affections appear to
be very generally prevalent, due probably to the
damp. variable weather experienced
throughout the State during the month. They
are reported from Modesto, Williams, st. Helena,
Antioch, Arbuckle Sacramento and Redding, in
the valleys Vallejo, near the coast, and Shasta
and LakepOrt. in the mountains.