Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-13
THE STATES HEALTH.
Monthly Circular of the State Board of
Health for June.

Healtn Tor June.
Gerard G. Tyrrell, NJ. D., Permanent
Secretary of the State Board of Health, has
issued the monthly circular for June. He
received during the month reports from
eighty-seven cities and towns within the
State, returning death rate of 964 in an
estimated population of 702,050, being a
percentage of Is per thousand per month
or an annual death rate of 1863, which de-
clares an exceedingly satisfactory condition
of the public health, and the lowest death
rate we have had this year.
Consumption stood at the head of the
list with 156 deaths, the smallest number
recorded within six months. Pneumonia
66, bronchitis 16, congestion OF the lungs
10, whooping cough 5, diphtheria 90 Group
s, scarlet fever 8, measles 3, typhoid fever
35, remittent fever 7, cerrebo-spinal fever 6,
cancer u, heart disease 81, erysipelas l,
alcoholism 9.
PREVAILING DISEASES.
From hundred reports received during
the month of June, and embracing large
portion of the State, we learn that sickness
is everywhere extremely limited, and that
no serious epidemic prevails.
The warm days experienced during the
luOulU anu lut SSbtIdl Oh Tue
fruit crop, has decidedly increased the fIe-
quency of cholera infantum, sporadic diar-
rhcea and dysentery, together with choeraic
| attacks from unripe or decayed fruit and
vegetables, which, III many localities, were
| quite noticeable by their frequency.
AS these are all, more or less prevent
! able diseases, induced by errors in diet, or
| bad hygienic surroundings, which are made
more manifest By the increased tempera,
! ture, we may expect continued reports OF
| bowel disorders until the warm season is
over, or the knowledge of hygiene becomes
as much a matter of necessary education a:
the art of reading or writing. When thi:
| time comes-which it will some day-wt
may indulge in the hope that the applica
| ton of this knowledge will so control the
habits and the habitations of our people a:
to reduce preventable disease to mini
mum.
Cholera infantum, diarrbea and dyson
| terry aud cholera morbus are reported from
several localities. as are also the measles.
Smallpox although not altogether ahsen
from the State, is confined 10 San Fran
cisco, where eleven cases were reported
during the month. These were nearly al
imported from abroad, an event for which
the authorities were prepared, the diseas
prevailing in so many of the Eastern State
|
large, that for some time to come we canno
hope for immunity from the disease il
small numbers. In Los Angeles Their
were only few cases during the month o
| June. and it is believed that no new case
have been developed for some two week
past. No cases have been reported in an,
other part Of the State during the month.
SCARLET FEVER ALMOST EPIDEMIC.
Scarlet fever was present during tn
month in Yreka, Salinas, Hills Ferry, Hop
land. Angels Camp, Tulare San Francisco
Oakland, Sacramento and Red Bluff. Tn
type, as a general rule has been very milo
so much 50 that many of the children hav
not been restrained from mngling wit
their playmates, aud even have been ser
to school with the rash upon them, CON
mon error being prevalent that scarlet ras
and scarlet fever are two different disease
the former being quite innocent, requirin
!, no care, and the latter the communicate
! disease. Through this mistaken notion
scarlet fever is rapidly spreading, and i
Sacramento is almost epidemic. Cnfol
tunateiy the miIdness OF one case is n
guarantee that in the next attacked 1t wi
pursue the same course, or that the yer
mildest case may not produce such an in
i pairment of the constitution as to injul
l permanently some organ essential to pc
, feet health. Local Boards of Health shoul
use due diligence in obtaining notiicatio
of the presence of this disease, as all san
: tary administration has its hopes of succe
in preventing more than arresting ep
i, denies, and if warnings are not taken fro
= the smaller excuses of disease, cata
trophies, not warnings, may be the next
! come.