Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-17

Extracts from the Board of HeaIth's
June Report.
j. R. Laine, secretary of the state
board of health, has issued his report
| for June, from which the following ex-
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Mortality reports from 100 cities,
towns, villages and sanitary districts,
having an aggregate population of 788,-
073, show 1921 deaths from all causes
during June. This corresponds to q
death rate of 1.29 per thousand or 1913
per annum.
There were 1876 deaths due to coz
sumption, So to pneumonia, "a to bron-
chitis, 5 to congestion of the lungs, IL
to diarrhea and dysentery, 33 to cholera
infantum. SO to other diseases OF the
stomach and bowels, % to diptheria,
to Group, IA to scarlatina. to measles.
5 to whooping cough, IA to typhoid
fever, 8 to malarial fevers, to cerebro-
spinal fever, to eryeipeas, "a to can
Ger, SO to diseases OF the heart, 6 to alco-
holism, and 475 to other causes.
No deaths from la grippe were report
ed in June.
Reports of prevailing diseases from
20 towns and sanitary districts outside
of the large cities show % cases OF pneu-
monia, II Of bronchitis, 6 of pleuritis, q
of congestion of the lungs, 200 ofsdiar-
rhea, 81 of dysentery, So of cholera NOR
bus, 80 Of cholera infantum, n of in
| 1ammation of the bowels, 20 of diphthe-
| ria, 80 of scarlatina, 81 of measles, Is of
whooping cough, 43 of la grippe, "a of
| typhoid fever, lis of malarial levers, 6
of cerebro-spinal fever, 13 of erysipelas.
| SO of rheumatism, 63 of neuralgia, and
| 72 of tonslitis.
| June was comparatively healthy
| month. The death rate per 1000 was
1.29, against Al in 1891. There is
shown an increase of diseases of the
stomach and bowels, but that is ex-
| pected in summer, when the fruitripens.
Cholera infantum is more frequently
fatal during the warm weather.
| Those diseases which increased the
mortuary reports of the winter continue
to abate. Smallpox ia not reported at
all. 1t is, however, reported epidemic
at Victoria, B. c.. and although Oregon
and Washington lie between us and that
point, it may very soon be necessary to
place an inspector at the northern boun-
dary of the state to detain any persons
showing symptoms of the disease.
Cholera, true to tradition. is following
upon the heels of la grippe. 1t has
leaped all boundaries between Asia and
Europe, and is reported as devastating
the famine-stricken districts of Russia.
But with the rapid and easy methods Of
travel, cholera no longer amoves at a
mans pace. Like winged messenger,
it has arrived in the great capitals OF
Europe, and consultations are being
held to decide what best may be done
to stay its fatal spread. Common pru-
dence would dictate that we look after
our private and municipal sanitary
affairs. 1t is just as we'll to expect NO
benefits from quarantine in cholera.
1t has never alone checked the progress
of this disease. Cholera has alway
Knocked at quarantine, but it has been
repeatedly baked by want OF filth and
polluted soil to breed and spread from,
1t is the duty of medical men to ex-
plain to the public that cholera is not
contracted, like smallpox, measles and
scarlatina. but from swallowing the
germs in water and food, or, after they
have effected Judgment in the throat,
| from a vitiated and poisoned atmos'
phere. We may not be visited at all
but the specter will be shorn of hall its
terrors when we have done all there il
to be accomplished to hold it back.