Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-13
HEALTH OF THE STATE.
Report of the Secretary of the State Board
of Health for October.

of Health for October.
Gerard G. Tyrrell, NJ. D., Permanent
Secretary of the State Board of Health. ha.
issued his circular Of the deaths occurring
during the month of October in the cite:
and towns of California, which represent 6
population of 504,350. Total number o.
deaths, S13. The causes are as follows
| Consumption, 122; acute pneumonia, IS
| acute bronchitis, IA :; congestion of lungs
| = diarrhea and dysentery, IS; cholera in.
! fantum, %; other diseases of the stomach
and bowels, 10; diphtheria, 80; Group, IL
| scarlet fever, 2; measles, 4 whooping
| cough, ; malarial fevers, IL typhoid fe,
yer, Sc remittant and intermittant fevers
2; cerebro and spinal fever, 6 cancer, "a
| eryslpelas, 2; heart disease, 81 alcoholism
| s; other causes, 1856.
Reports from Lightweight localities re-
ceived give no indication of an increase OF
mortality for the past month, or any EVIL
dence that epidemic disease prevails any
where IN the State. Arbuckle, College City,
| Downieville, Hills Ferry, Haywards, lone
Lodi, Lincoln, Loyalton, Mariposa
Truckee, Santa Maria, Willis, Bartlett
Springs, Auburn, San Mateo and Yuba
City, report no deaths in those towns or Vi
entities.
OF the diseases affecting the respiratory
organs, consumption had, as usual, the
largest mortality. Pneumonia caused only
thirty five deaths, nineteen of which oc-
CURED in San Francico, six in Oakland,
two in Los Angeles, two in San Jose, one
in Amador, one in Grass Valley, one in
Lakeport, one in Benicia, one in Sierra val
ley and one in st. Helena; the majority of
deaths occurring on the borders ofthe coast,
where the temperature is lower and the
humidity greater than in the interior val
leys. Acute bronchitis likewise shows a
a decreased mortality, the deaths being but
fourteen-ten in San Francisco, two in
Oakland, one in Modesto and one in River
side. There were no deaths from this dis
ease in any of the interior towns in the
State. Diphtheria caused thirty three
deaths, twenty-one of which occurred in
San Francisco, three in Stockton, one in
Santa Cruz, one in San Jose, one in River
side, one in Oakland, one in Los Angeles,
one in Jolon, one in Igo, one in
Chico and one in Berkeley, which
shows how extensively scattered the
disease is. Scarlet fever bad a mortal
ity of two-one in Chico and one in San
Bernardino. Diarrhea and dysentery
caused eighteen deaths, nine of which oc-
Cured in San Francisco and nine in vari-
Gus parts of the State which is very IA
vorable showing at this season of the wear.
when these diseases generally prevail ex-
tensively. Cholera infantum shows an in
creased mortality. the deaths numbering
twenty-nine-ten occurring in San Fran
cisco. five in Oakland, three in Santa Ana
and the balance in various parts of the
State, the greater mortality occurring in
those cities nearest the coast Cerebro-
spinal fever is reported as having caused
six deaths-one in Sacramento, one in
Plymouth, one in Martinez and three in
San Francisco OF the constitutional dis
eases, cancer caused thirty-four deaths.
Reports received from eighty light local
tiles exhibit remarkable continuance of
salubrity in every part of the State. Diar-
rhea and dysentery,,are the prevailing affec-
tons, but are not epidemic in any locality
Scarlet fever, in mild form, is noticed in
Riverside, Lincoln, Chico, Pomona, Napa,
Weaverville ana Redding Measles prevail
in DoWnieville, Angels Camp, Martinez
and Lakeport. Diphtheria still prevails in
San Francisco, and cases have occurred
during the month in Amador City, Chico,
College City, Jolon, Riverside, Los Angeles,
Sacramento San Jose, Livermore valley,
Berkeley, Oakland, Stockton, Santa Cruz,
and Igo, Shasta county. Erysipelas, in a
sporadic form. is mentioned as occurring in
Sacramento Nicolaus, Calico Chico, True
kee, BakerSne!d, NalleJo, Lakeport and Cas-
troville. The disease is apparently not very
malignant, as the mortality is quite small
Whooping cough is in Santa Ana and Mari
posa. Typhoid fever is reported in Susan
vile, Calico, Fort Bidwell and vicinity,
Pomona, Martinez, Chico Mariposa,
Maxwell, Sacramento, Nicolaus, True
kee, Santa Ana, Willis and Downieyille.
DR.. G. NJ. Kober u S. A, stationed at
Fort Bidwell, writing in regard to the ty-
phoid fever in Surprise and Goose Lake
valleys, is of the opinion that its prevalence
has relation to the lowness of the water
in the lakes of which there are quite
number in both valleys, and to the soil
pollution from the insanitarv habits of the
pioneer farmers. He attributes the immu-
nifty from zymotic disease of the garrison
at the fort to the fact that it is supplied
with water, not from the lakes, but from
mountain stream, conveyed in pipes to the
fort, to the absence of wells, and the eff
Gent care exercised in preventing soil pol
luton. Typho-malarial fever prevails in
Williams, Chico Arbuckle, lone, Igo, Col
lege City, Modesto, Plymouth, Amador
City, Dixon, Vallejo and Chico The dis
tnction between this disease and typhoid
fever is so very attenuated that, practically,
there is none. Diseases of the respiratory
organs are not mentioned among the re-
ports as prevailing to any extent-influ-
enZa, with some bronchial catarrh, being
the most prevalent. Smallpox is still
absent from the State. but is reported in
Mexico, and may be imported at any time.