Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-16

Weaverville, Woodland. Berkeley
Hills Ferry, Modesto and Elk Grove,
Scarlet Fever is mentioned in Cot.
tonwood, Lemoore, Sacramento, Red
Bluff, Pomona, Sissons, Arbuckle,
Forest Hill, Livermore, Oakland and
San Francisco.
Diptheria seems to be spreading
throughout the State. tits quite prev
alent in Sacramento, San Francisco,
Oakland and Amador City; it is also
mentioned as present in Watsonville,
Berkeley, St. Helena, Santa Cruz,
Fresno, Maxwell, Redwood, Etna
Mills, Truckee, Igo, Sissons, Suisun,
Livermore, Cloverdale, Biggs and
Woodland.
Group is also frequently met with
wherever Diphtheria prevails.
Whooping Cough still fingers in
Dixon and Red Bluff.
Erysipelas is noticed with more or
less frequency in Newcastle, Downey,
Santa Cruz, Susanville, and Mariposa.
The type is mild, and with but linn
tied mortality.
Typhoid Fever continues to be
noticed in reports from Bakersfield,
Cottonwood, Santa Cruz, MERGED,
Anaheim, Susanville, Calico, Fresno,
Truckee, Tulare, Elsinore, Cotton,
Igo, Pomona, Cedarville, Gridley,
Sissons, Weaverville, Elk Grove,
Mariposa, Sacramento, Oakland, and
San Francisco.
Tgpho- Malarial Fever is reported in
Wheatland, Downey, San Diego, Tu-
lare, Fresno, Lemoore, Amador,
Truckee, Knights Ferry, Pomona and
Modesto.
Remittent and intermittent fevers
are noticed in very limited number
of reports; these diseases being spor-
adic where occurring and without
any noticeable mortality.
Pneumonia prevails very generally,
and is reported in San Francisco,
Oakland, Alameda, Sacramento, Wat
sonville, San Jose, Bakersfield, St.
Helena, Fresno, Lemoore, Bodie,
Susanville, Truckee, Yreka, CEDAR
vile, Los Angeles, Pomona, Suisun,
Hills Ferry, Modesto and Woodland.
Bronchitis is also prevalent through
out the State.
Influenza is also prevalent. The
type is not of a very severe character,
and the mortality quite limited.
Smallpox is slowly but surely dis
seminating itself throughout the State.
1t has been declared epidemic in San
Francisco; is at present in a sporadic
form in Alameda, Solano, Marin,
Sonoma, San joaquin, Butte, Contra
Costa, Nevada, Siskiyou, Lake and
Sierra counties. This scattering of SO
contagious a disease as smallpox over
so large section of the State indicates
lis source as being from common
center where disease germs are in
abundance, and are thence conveyed
by visitors in their systems or in
their gclothing, to be developed as
they reach their several homes. All the
cases, so far as known, trace their
origin to San Francisco. In Sierra
City the disease assumed epidemic
proportions, there being no less than
nineteen cases in that town. We
may expect like result in other
towns as the disease progresses. The
history of smallpox in this and other
States is about the same. For a'num-
Der of years the disease is absent
Then negligence takes the place Of
vigilance and vaccination is deferred
until the number thus unprotected
has assumed such large proportions
that smallpox, if introduced, is sup
piled with an over-abundance of ma
terial susceptible to contagion, so that
the disease in a short time assumes
an epidemic form, until all the availa-
BILE sources of supply are exhausted
and every unprotected person at
tackled. We are just now emerging
from this period of quiescence through
out the State, the material for infec-
ton is abundant, and smallpox is
abroad. Therefore, without general
vaccination throughout California, We
cannot possibly escape the re-
suit of our negligence. The smallpox
of to-day is the same smallpox de-
scribed by Procopius nearly 400 years
ago, that deciminated and laid waste
the Eastern world and if material is
furnished as then, its ravages are no
less sure. The State Board of Health
again reiterates its advice to vaccinate
all unprotected persons, and to re-
vaccinate those the protective power
of whose vaccination may have be-
come impaired through lapse OF time.
Do not wait until smallpox invades
the community in which you live be-
fore availing yourself OF the emily pre-
ventive means that exists to avoid
the disease. 1t may then be too late,
and yourself be the first victim to the
malady. Above all, pay no attention
to the inevitable fool that is sure to
arise to air his ignorance by declaring
that there is no safety in vaccination,
and that it is delusion. The his
tory of smallpox emphatically gives
such cranks positive contradiction.
There is safety in vaccination, without
it there is none.
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