The record-union., 1892-10-14
DUE TO CLEANLINESS.
Marked Decrease in the Mortality
Rate for September.
The Sanitary Condition of the State
Greatly Improved, According to
the State Board of Health.

DR.. j. r. Lame, Secretary of the State
! Board of Health, in his report for Sep
tember, states that mortality reports from
ll9 cities, towns, villages and sanitary
districts, having an aggregate population
OF Sc, l69, give 965 deaths from all causes
during September. This corresponds to
death rate of LIS per thousand per
month, or 1880 per thousand per annum.
There were 1872 due to consumption, SO
to pneumonia, to congestion of the
lungs, % TO bronchitis, 20 to diarrhea and
dysentery, SO TO cholera infantum, SO to
other diseases of the stomach and bowels,
30 to diphtheria, 10 to scarlatina, l 10
smallpox, 8 to whooping- cough, "A to
typhoid fever, 8 to malarial fevers, 8 to
cerebro-spinal fever, u to cancer, to
erysipelas, Y to diseases Of the heart, to
alcoholism, 43S to all other causes.
PREVAILING DISEASES.
Reports of prevailing diseases from
seventy-three towns and districts outside
Of the large cities show Is cases of pneu-
monia, l04 of bronchitis, 10 of diarrhea,
81 of dysentery, 124 of cholera morbus, 81
OF cholera infantum, 2S of diphtheria, 8 of
Group, 81 Of scarlatina, II of measles, 2 of
smallpox, 81 of whooping-cough, Sc Of in
tiuenza, 80 of typhoid fever, 3GS of
malarial fever, q of erysipelas, LOG of
rheumatism, IL of cerebro-spinal fever,
100 of neuralgia, go of tonsilitis, Ii of
pharyngitis, Is OF Inflammation of the
bowels, and 10 of Inflammation of the
kidneys.
September was healthy month. There
was an absence of epidemic disease. and
the autumn weather over the entire State
has been delightful, though above normal
| IN t6mDeratura for Septlnl her
SMALLPOX.
a case of smallpox was reported from
Red Bluff of a woman who came from
British Columbia by water. Isolation of
the patient, with vaccination of all per-
sons believed to have been exposed,
| proved sufficient to prevent its spread.
The patient is dead. Another was re-
ported at Oakland. In this case the con-
tagiOn came by water from Mexico. The
same precautions led to like results as in
the first case, and the patient is discharged
with no spread of the disease.
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
The United States is to be congratulated
on its escape from the cholera this year.
New York City is to be complimented
upon its successful effort to suppress the
invasion Of the pest. The approach of
winter made the efforts, great and effi-
cient as they were, successful. The same
might not result so favorably. We may
| hope that the rigors of severe winter will
put an end to the march of the epidemic,
! but it must be remembered that it has
wintered in Russia and broken out in the
| spring. 1t is but logical to infer that it
| foreign importation. Ii it effects lodg-
ment on our shores in the early summer,
it will in all probability spread over
the continent. The efforts that have
been made to place our habitations in
| good sanitary condition will not be lost,
| even If cholera does not come. The re-
suit will be observed for many months
| in lessened death rate from diphtheria,
typhoid and other levers, and minor all
ments that arise from breathing emaua-
lions from decomposlng animal and
vegetable matter.
The villages and smaller towns should,
during the coming winter while the
ground is moist, improve their drainage.
Very little effort in that direction has
been made outside of the cities in Cali
tornla. In summer, while the ground is
hard and dry, and the people engaged in
agricultural pursuits, little is ever done
in the way of such improvements. But
no excuse can be advanced for not doing
this work in the rainy months of winter,
when there are idle hands enough to
| complete all that need be done, to place
hLesAiy VI LLiC W" III p6I1GCG SdIll-
| tary condition. Many beautiful hamlets,
and some summer resorts, have no means
provided for drainage or have no sewers,
and all refuse matter and house drainage
| is allowed to soak into the ground.
1t would be paying investment to
| make all needed Improvements of this
character during the winter, and every
where abandon as nearly as possible the
abominable cesspool system. People
| living in the country towns may profita-
| bly, bear in mind that in case of a cholera
| epidemic the residents of cities will flee
| to the country and spread the contagion,
and that small places not infrequently
| suffer in greater proportions than the
| larger towns. AS matter of economy a
good system of sewers in a country vii
lage is always paying investment. 1t
| acquires reputation for salubrity and
! induces the location of people of wealth
and refinement, the building up of in
dustries and rapid increase of popula-
ton and enhancement in real estate.
| No sensible man will spend much
money in identifying a home where he
cannot count on an ample supply of pure
water and pure air. Pure air cannot be
| obtained around human habitations
where there are no means for the speedy
removal of all refuse matter or waste.
whether fluid or solid.
IN view of what Hoods Sarsaparilla
has done for others, is it not reasonable to
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