The Beginnings Of Californias Medical History PDF Download

Excerpt from Medical History of the Year 1868, in California: A Paper Read Before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869, and Published by Order of the Society It will be seen that the relative mortality of small-pox to all other diseases in Sacramento is about as 1 to 13, nearly 8 per cent., and to the entire mortality as 1 to 14, or about 7 per cent, which is much less than in San Francisco, where it is as 1 to 4, or 25 per cent. To all other diseases, and 1 to 5, or 20 per cent. To the entire mortality. It will also be seen that the entire mortality was, at the same time, proportionately more enhanced in the former city, espe cially at the inception of the pestilence while the remark able fact is demonstrable from the same source, that the proportion of deaths to the population in Sacramento being 1 to every 54 inhabitants, is far more favorable in a general sanitary point of View, than in San Francisco where it is as 1 to every 41. I shall also soon show that the result as to cases was greatly in favor of Sacramento. 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.