Guard against Disease by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 14, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 19.

Guard against Disease.

By Editor

WE have received from the Secretary of the California State Board of Health, a Preventable Disease Circular, containing “facts for the people concerning cholera.” As cholera has already appeared on the shores of the Mediterranean, it is thought to be only a question of time when it will reach New York, and when once there, it will no doubt soon make its way across the continent, by the constant stream of immigration to this coast. It is therefore essential that every precaution be taken to prevent any lodgment of its deadly germs. We shall take pleasure in giving the contents of this circular the widest possible circulation, and we regard as eminently just, the severe strictures of the Honorable Secretary on the culpable neglect of the late Legislature of California in making no provision whatever to prevent this terrible disease from entering this State. In our Health Department this week will be found that part of the circular which tells “What can be done in the way of its prevention locally.” We hope our readers will preserve it and follow its directions.