Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-13
THE HEALTH OF THE STATE.
Report of the State Board for the Month
of April.


of April.
Dr. Gerard G. Tyrrell Secretary of the
State Board of Health, makes the follow
ing report for the month of April;
Reports have been received from seventy
SIX localities this month, and they indicate
very favorable condition of public health
and continued absence of any very fatal
disease of an epidemic character The in
creased mildness of the weather during
April has diminished the mortality from
pulmonary disease, without increasing it
from diseases of the bowels.
The prevailing diseases for the month of
April were of very general character,
small in number, mild in type, and with
out any epidemic tendency. This we gather
from reports received from nearly a hun
| bred localities in different parts of the
State.
1nflammatory diseases of the chest were
mentioned quite frequently, and also an
increase of remittent and intermittent
/ fevers.
Pneumonia appears to prevail to a linn
tied extent in Sacramento, San Francisco,
! Oakland, Los Angeles, Napa, Arbuckle,
| Cottonwood, Etna Mills, Calico, Ney ada
City, Cedarville and Santa Barbara.
Bronchitis, in like manner, is present in
Williams, Ukiah, Nicolaus, Martinez, Lake
port, Calistoga, MERGED, Modesto and San
| Francisco.
influenza is general in many places, and
is especially noticeable in Altpras, Bakers
field, Anderson, Upper Lake, Castroville
and Bodie
Whooping- cough prevails in Ukiah, Grass
| Valley Napa, Nicolaus, Amador, Susan
vile and Jolon
Scarlet fever is still noticed in reports
I f. l.,
derson, Anaheim, Arbuckle, Cedarville and
Truckee. In the latter town its prevalence
was due to the absence of proper precau-
ton in permitting the intercourse of the
sick with the WELL the non-observance of
sanitary laws, and especially the neglect of
disinfection and isolation.
Measles are quite prevalent in Sacra-
mento, Fort Bidwell, Susanville, Alturas
Modesto and MERGED.
Diphtheria prevails in San Francisco,
but not extensively. 1t is also mentioned
in reports from Oakland, Berkeley Sacra-
mento, Nicolaus. Hills Ferry, Livermore
AmaGor Etna Mills, Anderson, Anaheim,
Modesto and Jolon.
Group prevails more or less wherever
diphtheria appears, and it is now almost
universally conceded that the cases of
membranous Group distinct from diphtheria
are very rare.
| DiarrhGa and dysentery are beginning to
be reported as noticeable in Williams
L kiah, Martinez, Etna Mills, Bakersfield
Angels Camp, Modesto, Lemoore and
Willis. AS the warm weather approaches
these diseases will become more prevalent
At present the disease is seldom fatal, but
| increased virulence may be expected as the
summer advances. As cholera NAV be i'm
ported this year, communities and indi-
| Vlduals cannot be too expeditions in put
| ting themselves and their surroundings in
| the best possible sanitary condition attain
able, so as to limit the spread of diarrhea
and dysentery, and possibly cholera.
Cleanliness of person and home is the best
| possible prophylactic against disease of any
KIND, and lis adoption cannot be too strenu-
ously urged at this time
Typhoid and typhoid-malarial fevers
are not noticeable by their frequency, as at
present they do not prevail except TO a
very limited extent in San Francisco, Santa
Clara, Mariposa, Modesto, Calistoga, Igo
and Oakland.
Remittent and intermittent fevers are be-
coming more prevalent as the warm
weather approaches. mo fatal case oc-
! Cured from either last month, which is
evidence of the mild character of the at
| tacks.
1t cannot, however, be too earnestly i'm
pressed upon the profession tina. the strong
eet safeguards against the introduction of
| disease into our midst will be such as are
erected by the people themselves as a result
of their being brought to comprehend the
essentially protective nature of perfect
sanitation