Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-13
The Health of the State.

DR.. G. G. Tyrrell, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, in his report for August,
just issued, makes the following remarks
relative to prevailing diseases:
Reports received from all parts of the
State indicate that little or no sickness pre-
walls; indeed, one correspondent reports
that no sickness or death had occurred in
his part of the country for two months and
over. Twenty-six correspondents report
that no deaths had occurred in their vicinity
for over month. We are therefore led to
conclude that as a rule, California at pres
ent is in most salubrious condition and
unscathed by epidemic disease.
Cholera infantum. although still preya-
lent, as might be expected at this season of
the year, is not universally prevalent. 1t is
mentioned as present in Lemoore Mari
posa, Martinez, Etna, Alturas, Anaheim,
Santa Rosa and DoWnieville.
Diarrhea and dysentery seem to be the
most prevalent of any diseases reported
They are mentioned as present in Red
Bluff, Susanville, Fort Bidwell Elk Grove
Modesto, Lemoore, Cloverdale I.akeport,
Martinez, lone, Etna, Hills Ferry, Alturas,
Jolon, Truckee, Gridley, Bakersfield
Shasta Grass Valley, Oakland, Stockton
Salinas and San Francisco.
Measles are reported in Salinas and Pope
valley, very mild and sporadic only.
Scarlet fever is reported in Weaveryille,
Truckee st. Helena, Alturas and Etna
Mills. The type is very mild, causing but
slight mortality.
Diphtheria prevails to limited extent in
San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Mon
terey, Santa Cruz, Mariposa, Martinez, San
Diego, ST. Helena, Etna and Truckee. The
Hitfianltu nf alnaatiro tha ,ar,hlin ir,tn no
belief of the necessity of quarantining the
sufferers from this disease is beyond COM
prehension. We have seen children play
ing in the street suffering from a mild at
tack of diphtheria, who were as capable of
injecting others with the disease as though
they had it in the most yirulent form. In
deed, we witnessed one death produced by
contact with these children, and yet their
parents could not be persuaded to keep
them from contact with others. 1t is thus
that the disease is often diffused from
house to house and kept alive where it
ought to be diligently extirpated. Every
person having it ought to be isolated, and
every house in which it is ought to be
quarantined and a colored flag placed in a
conspicuous position upon the building, to
mark the location of the enemy. Local
authorities ought to compel such precau-
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the disease being wholly under the control
Of efficient sanitary measures.
Whooping- cough prevails in Colfax, Clio
verdale, Lakeport, Martinez, Modesto, Ana
helm, Truckee, Redding, Amador City, San
Diego, Nicolaus, San Francisco and Sacra-
mento.
Erysipelas is mentioned as present in a
mild form in Lemoore Martinez, Nicolaus,
Wheatland, Truckee and Calico.
Typhoid fever is noticed in many of our
reports as present. For instance, in Modoc
DIR. Forrest writes that the disease prevails
in Goose Lake district and is of rather a
severe type. DR.. Fred. Hutchins, of Sierra
City, reports cases of typhoid fever in GER
tain i'll drained districts of the town Dr.
Jump also reports typhoid fever in Forest
City, owing to some sanitary negligence. 1t
is also reported in San Francisco, Peta-
luna, Fort Bidwell, Elk Grove, Upper
Lake, Etna Mills, Alturas, Igo, Oakland
and Santa Barbara. The cases are, however
sporadic, without any epidemic tendency,
and probably can all be traced to sanitary
neglect of the individual or indifference Of
the authorities
Intermittent and remittent fevers prevail
e Extensively throughout the State DR.. Ba-
thurst writing from Etna Mills, describes
these feyers as differing in type from those
usually prevailing being complicated with
bowel disorder, which is unusual.