Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-16

ramento, San Francisco, Sisson, Cotton,
Locke!ord, Truckee, Biegs, Anderson, Red
Bluff and Marysville. The type is partic-
ularly mild, and rarely shows malignancy.
This form of the disease leads to gross
carelessness upon the part Of parents and
guardians, in permitting their children TO
attend school, and in allowing the visits of
other children to their houses while the
disease is still there; as it is impossible to
tell IL what case it will take on the mild
course, or in what the malignant type.
Every case of scarlet fever or scarlatina
should be promptly isolated, and no inter
course permitted between the sick and the
well, until perfect convalescence was esiab-
lished, and the place OF sickness thor
oughly fumigated and disinfected. Scarlet
fever germs are among all germs most per-
sistent in their tenacity of life; they will
live for months, perhaps years, in infected
garments, and come forth at some favor
able opportunity TO reap harvest of sick
ness, perhaps death, or, in many instances,
to impress lifelong impairment of bodily
strength and vigor. The mildness OF the
attack is often the precursor of serious dis
ease, and too much care cannot be taken of
those affected by scarlet fever IN any form.
and no words can sufficiently condemn any
person who permits the intermingling of
the sick, suffering from scarlet fever. with
the well, where it is within the bounds of
possibility to prevent it.
Measles are mentioned in reports from
Jolon. In other places it seems to have
exhausted the susceptible material
Smallpox appeared in one instance dur
ing the month in Sacramento. The man
was working on ranch some distance
from the city, and knew of no means
whereby he could have become infected. In
San Francisco some few cases were detected
in the County Hospital. One case came
from Cincinnati on the train, and devel-
oped the disease on arrival in San Fran
cisco. As we know not how soon the dis
ease may take on an epidemic character
and extensive range, the necessity of imme-
diate vaccination cannot be too earnestly
urged. Through it we can avert an epi-
demic, and by il can positively protect the
person from attack. We would therefore
urge our local Boards of Health and Health
Officers to attend to the vaccination of all
unprotected persons at once. pandemic
wave is slowly but surely passing over
these United States, and we cannot escape
it except by thorough vaccination. when il
will pass harmlessly by.
Diphtheria unfortunately is a constant
visitor in many towns. 1t is noticed in re-
ports from Rocklin, Truckee, Redding,
Biggs, Anderson, Sacramento, San Fran.
cisco, Oakland, Wstsonviile st. Helena.
Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Tulare, Jolon,
San Bernardino, Pasadena, Pomona Dow
ney, and Alameda. The cases seem spo-
radio, without any tendency to epidemicftv
When attacking children in the form of
Group, its fatality is greatest The neces-
sty of taking all possible sanitary meas
ures to prevent the spread of this formida-
Bile disease is apparent, or ought to be, to
everybody, and yet we witnesses public
funerals of those dead Of the disease: we
see houses crowded with mourning friends
where he spores of disease are floating all
around them, and if they escape it is not
owing to their own prudence, but the con-
ditiogi Of their system, which renders them
antipatbic 10 the disease at that time.
Until such foolish proceedings are forbid
den by law, we may expect diphtheria to be
carried from place to place and take It's vic
tins wherever it can find a suitable medi-
um f'r its development
Whoopiug-cough is noticed in Merced.
Angels Camp, Anderson and San Fran
cisco.
Erysipelas-Sporadic cases are reported
in Sacramento, Iruckee, Fresno and st.
Helena
Typhoid fever is mentioned as notice
able in Elsinore, Colfax. Sacramento. Fort
Bidwell, Etna Mills, Cotton. Anaheim,
| Redding, Truckee, Igo, Watsonville,
Downieville, Millville, San Bernardino,
Santa Ana, San Diego Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Chico.
Pneumonia is becoming quite prominent
among the prevailing disease reports, which
is to be expected as the temperature lowers
and the winter rains appear. With bron-
chitis, it is noticed quite frequently in Sen
Francisco, Oakland, San Bernardino, Los
Angeles, Downie, Fresno, Tulare, Wheat
land, Etna Mills, Lemoore, Lakeport,
Truckee Williams. Anderson, Marysville.
Brownsville, Rocklin, Downieville, Igo
and other places. The type is not severe,
and the disease is not epidemic anywhere.
In our last report We mentioned the fact
OF this Board sending an expert to the
frontier, 10 ascertain our liability to the
inroad of yellow fever. DR.. Herrick, hav-
ing visited all the suspected points, reports
that no danger is to be apprehended this
year. None of the nursery products of
Florida will be imported into this State
until February or March, when the frost
will have entirely killed the microbe upon
which yellow fever is supposed to depend,
Consequently we run little or no danger
from this source.
The Board is now engaged upon the
work of ascertaining how far the prevail
ing diseases among cattle are dangerous to
human life, and to what extent they pre-
vail or are likely to affect the food supply
OF the State.