Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-26
PREVAILING DISEASES


Reports received from seventy FIVE local
tiles continue to indicate very limited
amount of sickness throughout the State
aud although during some days within the
month the temperature ranged as high as
l1lo in some parts of the State, not single
case of sunstroke or thermic fever was re.
ported to this Office, or, as far as known, oc.
CURED within its borders.
Cholera was noticed with some frequency
in Lemoore, Dixon. Sacramento, Mariposa
CedarVille, Fort Bidwell, Sierra City, Po-
mona, Salinas, San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Bsrnardino, Oakland and San Francisco,
Diarrhea and dysentery was observed in
Millyille, Lemoore, Anaheim, San Diego
Monterey, Jolon, Castroville, San Bernar.
dino, Downey, Tulare, Fresno, Cloverdale,
Knights Ferry, lotion good, Lincoln, Biggs
Weavervilie, Anderson, Etna Mills, Sisson
Truckee, Alturas, Sierra City, Vallejo and
San Francisco.
Measels were noticed in CastToville and
Cloverdale.
Scarlet fever WAS present in Sacramento,
Lemoore, Biggs, Sisson, Oakland and San
Francisco. The type is siDGulsrly mild and
attended by Z very limited mortality.
Dipithe1ia still occupies considerable
part OF The State, and adds q large item TO
our death rate during August. It was noted
in reports from san Francisco, Oakland,
San Bernafdno, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz,
Selma, Watsonville, St Helena, Anderson,
Sisson, Golfax, Etna Mills, Sonora, Gridley
and Fresno.
Whooping cough was present in Ander-
son, Calico Eisinore, Livermore, San Ber-
nardin0 and San Francisco
Erysjpeias, il sporadic form, was OBJ.
served in Millville, Downey, Biggs, Colfax,
Sierra City, Fresno, Brownsville, Oakland
and San Francisco
Typhoid and typho-malarial fever is
mentioned as present in Elk Grove, Sacra-
mento. Lemoore, Hopland, Igo, Anderson,
Knights Ferry, Cloverdale, Cotton, San
Diego, San Bernardino. Los Angeles, Pasa-
dena, Pomona, Hills Ferry, Truckee, Fort
Bidwell, Etna Mills, Tulare, Salinas, Oak
land and San Francisco. In Yuma, Ari-
zona, DR.. Taggerl writes typhoid fever and
diphtheria are epidemic.
Remittent fever is noted in Bodie, Mill
vile, Lemoore, Cotton wood, Lodi, Igo,
Williams, Aliuras, Knights Ferry, Downey,
5issr5,. C0lfdx. Fresno, Elsinore, Lockeford
and Shasta
limited pumber of csses Of pneumonia
were nuiccd in Downey, Salinas, San Ber-
iardino, DixOu, Marysv;ile, Nevada City,
Oakland Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, Stock
tou and San Francisco 1t is not marked
prevalent anywhere, and was probably
es limited as it Will be during the year.
BronchitIs has almost disappeared from
orr sick reports, although a case or two was
uoticed in Bodie. Weaverville, Mariposa,
Fresno and San Bernardino 1t was more
frequent in San Francisco than anywhere,
but there the disease was limited, as a rule,
to the advanced in lite.
Parotiditis or mumps was quite epidemic
in Castroville.
Smallpox has, we regret to say, reap
peared in San Francisco, Oakland and Red
ding. In San Francisco, August 23d, it was
introduced by man trading on the San
Joaquin river; in few DAYS several cases
developed, and by the Both of the month
fourteen cases were in the hospital. Two
cases were detected in Oakland, but were
Immediately quarantined. One case was
also detected in Reddipg, and placed in the
smallpox hospital. Owing to the exceed
ing mildness in the character of the dis
ease which developed during the past
in those parts of the State, outside the
large cities, to properly destroy clothing,
disinfect or fumigate the premises, or
render it improbable or impossible for the
disease germs to exist in or about those
attacked by the disease, many of the cases
never going to bed, and others as equally
careless of the health of their nsighbors.
AS result, we may lcok for an outbreak
of the disease when the winter season ap-
breaches and those diseased garments are
sgain brought into use. What was mild in
lis form last winter may be most virulent
in its course this winter. The wisest
course to pursue, then, is to get vaccinated
early, and thus anticipate disease by
timely preventive measures.