UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
LIBRARIES
266892

MARCH 1930

CONTENTS OF REPORT. .

Members and Standing Committees.

General Report to the Governor......

Sanitory laws must be enforced..

A Legislative Committee on Public Health......................... .............

Legislation against quackery.....

The work performed by the Board.

Vital statistics..........

Irrigation

Pollution of the American River (see note).................. ...........................

The insane and inebriate-probationary asylums, etc.............

Climatology and consumption.......

Contingent expenses of the Board...........

REPORT OF THE PERMANENT SECRETARY.

Vital statistics.........

Mortuary and sanitary statistics.....

Table (No. 1) showing the total mortality, as well as that by the most prevalent

diseases, in twenty-three localities, comprising about half the population of

the State, with the ratio of deaths to one thousand of the population, from

January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to January, eighteen hundred

and seventy-five; also, the authorities for the data........

Table (No. 2). Comparative mortality statistics for eighteen hundred and sev-

enty-four.........

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Table (No. 3). Number of deaths annually per one thousand inhabitants in cer-
tain principalities of Europe and America, for a series of years.........

Table (No. 4). Total mortality from January, eighteen hundred and seventy-

four, to January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by sexes, race, months,

ages, and nativities.

Table (No. 5). Comparative table of mortality of certain prevalent diseases, by

months........

Number of deaths to each ten thousand of the population from infantile diarrhea

(cholera infantum) and other special diseases.......

32-35

Number of deaths to each ten thousand inhabitants of foreign-born, of natives

over five years, and of natives under five years......

36

Statistics of San Francisco.......

37

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Table 1. Number of deaths registered during eighteen hundred and seventy-

four, arranged according to classes, with an enumeration of the more promi-

nent causes, and a statement of the age, sex, and nativity............

Table 2. Mortality by months, with sex, race, nativity, and distribution, for

eighteen hundred and seventy-four............

PAGE.

38-39

40-41

Remarks respecting mortality, for eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in San

Francisco..........

42

Vital statistics of Sacramento.........

44

Annual table of the necrology of Sacramento, eighteen hundred and seventy-four..

Monthly and annual mortality of Sacramento for twenty-five years.........

Hospitals, asylums, public institutions, etc..........

46-47

48

49

52

55

Construction of hospitals, illustrated with plans..........

Remarks relating to charitable institutions..........

Table exhibiting the number of indigent sick, with the results, in charitable insti-

tutions, and the percentage of deaths to the cases, during eighteen hundred

and seventy-four.................

San Francisco Lying-in and Foundling Hospital...... .......

60-61

62

“The Insane, and why so many?" by G. A. Shurtleff, M. D., Superintendent

Insane Asylum at Stockton .........

Correspondence in relation to the State Insane Asylum at Napa...........

Second report on Probationary Asylums for the Insane in large cities, by A. B.

Stout, M. D............................. ...................

(Document A.) "What shall be done with the habitual drunkard?" by James

F. Hibberd, M. D.......................................

(Document B.) "Delirium Tremens," by Daniel H. Kitchen, M. D............

(Document C.) Hospitals for inebriates..........

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86

93

Climatology and Consumption, by Thos. M. Logan, M. D......

Table 1, of rainy days and rain in Sacramento during twenty-five years................ 100-102
Rain Table No. 2, for San Francisco, from eighteen hundred and forty-nine to
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, inclusive.......

Table No. 3. Mean temperature of each month at Sacramento since eighteen

hundred and fifty-two, and the mean temperature of each year, and the aver-

age of twenty-two years.................. ........................

103-105

.......... 106-107

Table No. 4. Showing the mean relative humidity for thirteen years at Sacra-

Table No. 5. Showing the mean of all highest readings by day and all the low-

est readings by night, during ten years, at Sacramento....

Table No. 6. Showing the mean temperature of each month for twenty-four

years, in San Francisco, and of each month in twenty-two years, in Sacra-

108

mento.....

109

Climate of San Francisco, by Henry Gibbons, Sr., M. D............................. ..........................

110

Table 1. Showing, for each month in the year, the mean temperature,

etc....

111

Table 2. Showing the prevailing winds of each month in the year, etc...

Table 3. Showing the relative force of wind, etc..............................

111

112

Table 4. Showing the proportion of time in which the sky was cloudy or

clear, etc

112

Table 5. Showing the mean temperature for twenty-four years..

Malarial Fevers and Consumption in California, by Thos. M. Logan, M. D........

Nature and causes of malarial poison.........