Seventh Report of the State Board of Health of California
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Excerpt from Seventh Report of the State Board of Health of California: From July 1, 1880, to December 1, 1881 To his Excellency George C. Perkins, Governor of California: The State Board of Heath have the honor of herewith presenting their Sixth Report. It is a proper subject for congratulation, that the epidemic of smallpox, which prevailed more or less during the past two years in the metropolis, and for a certain time in a few other localities of the State, may be said to have expended its force, and to have almost, if not quite, disappeared from our midst. When we consider the virulence of the variolous contagious principle. and the facilities afforded through constant intercourse with the chief center of its prevalence in this State along the various lines of travel, it has seemed somewhat surprising that it should not have been more generally disseminated; and this exemption is all the more noticeable in view of the additional, and even greater, danger of the widespread diffusion of the disease by means ot the immigration flowing in upon us through the seaport cities of the Atlantic border, and from infected localities in States east of the Rocky Mountains. There can scarcely be a doubt that the measure of exemption realized has been mainly due to the general adoption of vaccination in all our cities, and in many of the country towns. At no period in the history of the State has this measure been so generally practiced. There seems to have been an almost universal recognition of its protective influence. That the energy with which it was prosecuted by the health authorities of the City of San Francisco, was the means of saving that city from a general and devastating epidemic there can be but little doubt; and it is not too much to say, that San Francisco is, at the present time, one of the best vaccinated cities in the United States. Some interesting questions have arisen out of the presence of smallpox in the State, and the method of its introduction to localities in the interior. We have been brought face to face with several serious defects in our sanitary laws. They have been referred to at some length in the accompanying Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Health. One of these defects was seriously felt during the past Winter, when, for the protection of the State from the introduction of smallpox from eastern States, it was deemed prudent to institute a system of inspection, and, possibly, quarantine, of immigrant passengers near the State boundary. The absence of any law for such a procedure at once presented a serious difficulty, which was surmounted only by the prompt and liberal action of your Excellency in assuming an authority not written in the statutes, but dictated and warranted by the common law of self-protection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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