Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-13
uRALTh' OF THE STATE.
THE STATE BOARDS h EPORT FOR JUNE
SAYS IT IS mi. ROWING.
Tb.r Prevent the Deadly
Typhoid Fever.

The report OF the State Boara of Healt
for the month of June has been issued b
the Secretary, Or G. G. Tyrr.ll.
Mortality reposes received frcm 100 citis
and towns throughout the Sta te, with a
estimated population of S2i, $50, give til
number of decedents as 1905 VIII ich IS
monthly percentage of % per LOG, OF al
annual mortality at the rate of Is As, whicl
Is decrease from the percentage in May
The report says; Undl the otficisl re
suit OF the late census is published, W
hsve to accept the estimated population a
furnished by our correspondents, al(
which we know now to be in many i'll
stances much exaggerated. Our aetna.
death rate is, therefore. uncertain, until
We can get the correct or nearly correct
number OF ehe population sieoted. There
has been very little zymotic disease re-
ported as particularly fatal, except cerebral
fever and cholera infantum, and these in
limited number. Consumption caused the
largest mortality, 154 deaths being reported
from II; pneumonia was fatal in sixty
~iShs AhSs~cSCSf 10 uS-
crease from former report; bronchitis
caused thirty deaths; congestion of the
lungs, twelve. who .ping-cough was fatal
in three instances.
Diphtheria and Group collectively were
reported as causing thirty-tve deaths
which indicates very much lessened prev.
alence OF the disease. Twenty six were
from diphtheria and nine from Group. OF
the former, seventeen are credited to San
FRANCISCO, one occurred in Santa Ana, and
one each III Sacramento, San Bernardino,
Oakland ana Martinez, and two each in
Los Angeles and @akdale; and of the lat
ter, one death occurred in Vallejo. San
Jose, Woodland and Long Beach and five
in San Francisco.
Cholera infantuIn is credited with fifty
one deaths in June, which is marked IN
crease over the mortality recorded from this
disease last month diarrb@a and dysen-
terry caused nineteen deaths; scarlet feve,
was fatal In but two instances, both in
Oakland; measles caused but five deaths
two occurring in Los Angeles typho-mala.
rial fever was fatal in five instances ty-
phoid fever caused eighteen deaths; remit.
tent fever is credited with two deaths
ce1ebro-splnal fever caused twenty-one
deaths, which is an increased mortality
two each occurred in Stockton, Hanford
and Los Angeles, and one each in Ala
media, Anaheim, Benicia, Berkeley, Davis.
vile, Jackson, Mendocino, Napa, Oakland
Suisun and Visalia. three in San Francisco;
Erysipelas was fatal in one instance; cancer
is credited with twenty-seven deaths heart
disease caused seventy-nine deaths; alco-
holism was fatal in five. persons; deaths
from causes not classified in this abstract
numbered four hundred and fifty.
PUBLIC HEALTH IMPROVING.
Reports received from eighty-four local..
ties in different parts of the State indicate
an improved condition of the public
health, Respiratory diseases are no longer
mentioned as prevailing to any extent, ex-
cept bronchitis, which is noticed with some
frequency in our reports of sickness. Dis
orders of the bowels were prevailing to
some extent and some few cases of cholera
morbus were noticed. This disease was no
doubt induced in many cases by eating of
unripe or unsound fruit or vegetables. "
motto diseases, such es measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheris, ETC., were not prevalent
anywhere, and where present were in a
mild form without any tendency to spread
or become epidemic.
Typhoid fever is mentioned in limited
number of reports this month, the cases
being all sporadic. 1t was noticed in Sacra-
mento, Rocklin, Newcastle, Santa Paula,
Rio Vista, Livermore, Santa Ana, Los An
geles, Oakland, San Diego, Ell Monte, San
Jose, Santa Barbara and San Francisco.
From this time onward we may look for
an increase in this preventable disease, as
it seems impossible to educate the public
up to the necessity of keeping their pre-
misses free from accommodating and decom.
posing filth, the air they breathe, the food
they eat, and the water they drink thereby
becoming contaminated and dangerous to
health. Of all the sources from which
typhoid fever emanates, polluted water is
the most frequent. Every person drinking
well water should personally see that all
sources of defilement are removed from the
vicinity of the well, as when the surface
water evaporates and the ground water
lowers, the well hole acts as reservoir for
the drainage of all fluids in its vicinity.
Thus the we'll water becomes as dangerous
to drink as any other poisonous fluid
hence we account for the increase Of
typhoid fever in the later months of sum-
mer, much of which is avoidable and pre-
ventable by care and sssiduity in cleaning
up soiled premises and removing all garb.
age and other filth.
Isolated cases of pneumonia were OBJ.
served in Alameda, Anaheim, Chico, Eu.
reka, Los Angeles, Oakland, Nevada City
Sacramento, Salinas, San Bernardino
Shasta, Vallejo, Napa. Etna Mills, Angels
Camp and Elsinore. In San Francisco il
was quite prevalent.
Bronchitis, in mild FORM. was quite
general. 1t is noticed in many reports
Bakersfield, Biggs, Igo, Sausalito, Downey
Downieville, Brownsville, Lodi, Truckee
Lockeford Sacramento, st. Helena, Oak.
dale, Grass Valley, Oakland. Fresno, Msr.
ced, Mojave, Benicia, lone, Tehachapi, Sa
linas and Eureka.
THE CHOLERA.
Advices have been received from thu
East that cholera is increasing in Spain
continues the report, and as it commenced
in the same province where in 1855 il car
ried off 10000 of its inhabitants, it is no
improbable that the same lack of sanitary
care will permit it to spread Throughout
| Spain. and thence reach America through
the Mediterranean or Eastern imports. TIL.
disease is supposed to have originated in
Valencia from opening the graves of some
| of the victims of the disease in 1885, and i.
OF virulent type. As it has been proven
again and again that cholera cannot prevail
where perfect cleanliness is observed, il
would be matter of simple prudence Il
prepare to defeat any attempted inroad o
this disease into California by genera
cleanup of our cities, towns and villages
Once the disease appears, this measur,
would be too late, and we would be left Il
mourn our dying and our dead, the result
OF our own apathy and wlllful neglect of ,
| manifest duty. We cannot be sure tina
cholera will not come to America we hop,
1t will not. But with a means of proven
tinD oacilv anpliod upo upnt,td ha ~, ~,