Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-16
TWELVE PAGES.
The Advantages of Our semi.
TrOpfc Climate.

been said will bear repetition from
time to time. There are thousands
vet who do not know what blessing
awaits them in this sun-kissed land.
There are other thousands who are IN
danger of forgetting it. Even here
Mt home we are prone to underrate
the comfort and health of such air as
that which envelops the coast OF
Southern California.
AS compared with the rest OF the
State Los Angeles stands at the very
top of the list. Her population is near
ly $4,000, the death rate for Novem-
her. which was abnormally large, was
40. Of these deaths II were caused
by consumption, every case OF which
was brought here, and most OF them
arrived too late to get benefit from
the climate.
Oakland has 46, 900 population and
reports as deaths, Z being caused by
consumption.
Sacramento claims $4,000 inhabit-
ants and reports 46 deaths, s being
from consumption.
San Diego with 5000 souls had y
deaths, 6 of them copsumptive cases.
San Francisco with 2S6,000 people
lost 452 bv death, 62 being by con-
sumption.
Stockton, with $4,000, reports II
deaths, 2 OF them being from con-
sumption. Comparing other diseases
it will be found that all complaints of
the bowels and stomach, which result
largely from impure water, are almost
unk nown here. So are all diseases OF
children. The same is true of all fe-
yers which result from malaria or
other impurities of the air. Pneumo-
mia, disease incident to all climates
where severity, and extreme degrees
rule, is credited with but single
death in November, which was the
coldest month in Southern California
in the memory of the proverbial old
est inhabitant. Oakland had . cases
of pneumonia, Sacramento reports 8,
Sa N Diego 5, San Francisco y, San
Jose 2. This last named place has
$4,000 inhabitants, OF which 26 died
z by consumption. In nearly 70
towns in the State 60 died of pneumo-
ria. Many places of less than 1000
people report one death by this dis
ca Sc, and several OF little more than
1000 report deaths by the same
cause. In these towns 2S persons
di ed of typhoid fever. 1t will be re-
called that Los Angeles lost none by
this disease. There is a total of 20
deaths reported from Group, this city
not furnishing one under this head.
Diphtheria carried off A, none of
them being in Los Angeles.
DIR. Walter Lindley of this city, on
the 10Th of October last, read before
the Medical Society of Brooklyn, N.
Y, sketch of Southern California in
its climatic relations to disease, from
which the following excerpts are
made:
81 cannot tell you of a country
where a man with incipient phthisis
can go and spend three months, re-
turn to the environments that pro-
duced his disease, and be we'll man.
But shall tell you of land contain
ing cities and plains, mountains and |
valleys, oceans and rivers, meadows
and deserts, the rose and the cactus,
pine forests and orange groves, where
the person in the first stage of
phthisis may 60, make a delightful |
home for himself, and in time become
a man of average health; place
where the child of phthisical parent |
will usually develop into healthy
manhood.
"Many patients with incipient
phthisis are told go and spend few
months at some popular health re-
sort. They should be told to 90 un-
til they found climate that suited |
them, and then remain there. 1t |
should not be pictured to them as
vacation, but rather as a long
for life.
"Southern California is distinct
physical region in itself.
"The latitude of Southern Califor-
mia is that of Southern Italy, the
Sea and Northern
Africa.
"In this part of the State the trend
is from the northwest to the south
east. A long strip OF coast, however,
runs directly east and west. The
winds of this region have much the
nature of monsoons, the name that is
given to the semi-annual winds that
blow six months in one direction and
then six months in the opposite on
Ill western and southern coasts. ,
Their prevailing direction is toward
he southeast in the summer or dry
seas on, and toward the northeast in {
he winter or rainy season. Their
normal direction is much DETECTED,
however, by the hot interior regions
II the Great Basin, SO that in sum-
ner, when the heat would otherwise !
De intense, a brisk breeze is always
slowing from the sea to supply the
,lace of the rising currents of air in J
he hot interior deserts. G
Gan the general winds of Southern t
california are sea winds, and they in t
urn receive their heat from the Kuro s
1.-Two or japan current, the great gulf g
tream of the Pacific Ocean. Il
tsThis great river Of the ocean has '
Is origin in the China Sea and pushes \
Is drift OF warm water in great t
val current across the Pacific Ocean 3
nd thence southwark along the t
'estern coast Of North America, and Q
IL winds from over this vast warm =
|rsam impart their genial qualities :