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dew growing grapes. The records of the State Board of Health show that 

 Solano County is one of the healthiest counties of the State, and Suisun 

 and its environing valley stands at the head of the health list of the county. 

 It is only necessary to mention one fact in connection with this subject. 

 The Suisun City public school has had an average daily attendance of one 

 hundred and fifty scholars for the past thirteen years, and during that long 

 period it has lost only one pupil by death. The hygienic annals of the 

 world are challenged to show a parallel example of freedom from disease. 



VALLEJO'S CLIMATE. 



The climate of Vallejo is unexceeded. Statistics bear us out in the 

 assertion that a more healthy locality does not exist within the limits of 

 the State, if at all. 



During the year 1880 sixty-eight cities of the United States made 

 weekly death reports to the National Board of Health, and in its bulletin 

 of February 18, 1881, the Board aggregates and tabulates the contents of 

 the reports, exhibiting results for the year. From this table it appears 

 that Vallejo was the healthiest place reported in 1880, and Norfolk, Vir- 

 ginia, the unhealthiest. The average life in Vallejo was 83.5, and only 

 one in its entire population died of consumption, while in Norfolk the 

 average life was 27.9, and one in every two hundred and forty-nine died of 

 consumption. 



The same delightful, healthy climate we had in 1880 we have now in 

 1887. The sea breeze is daily wafted to us direct from the bosom of the 

 Pacific. With no intervening swamps, or malaria-infested district, over 

 which to pass, it comes to us pure, exhilarating, and health-giving. It is the 

 genial, balmy, bracing climate — in short, the glorious climate that induces 

 the thousands upon thousands of people from the East and all other parts 

 of the world to leave their homes, their kindred, and old associations to 

 seek for health and comfort. A most remarkable feature of our climate 

 is its uniformity. January is nearly as warm as July. We have no 

 decided winter, no ice, little frost, and seldom, if ever, snow. From Octo- 

 ber to May we have occasional rains, and sometimes a shower in June or 

 September. From December to June is spring, the rest of the year is like 

 autumn, and the days in January or July are much like the warm days 

 of April or October in the Middle States. It is an agreeable climate all 

 the year round. 



CLIMATE OF BENICIA. 



The climate of Benicia is not surpassed by any locality on the continent; 

 snow has fallen but three times in forty years, and then not to exceed three 

 inches, which melted in a few hours. The thermometer ranges during the 

 winter from 30° to 65° above zero, and from 60° to 90° in the summer. 

 Owing to the comparative dryness of the air, the higher degrees of summer 

 temperature are far more readily borne than in the Atlantic States. Work 

 never has to be suspended on account of heat, and through the greater part 

 of the summer, the cooling breezes from the ocean temper the atmosphere, 

 and save us from the high temperatures of the interior valleys. Besides 

 this, it is noteworthy, that whatever may have been the heat of the day, 

 the nights are cool, and bring refreshing sleep, and a covering of blankets 

 is needful. 



This feature of cool nights during the warmest summer months, is com- 

 mon to a large part of California, but is well marked at this place. 



Obversely, the lower degrees of temperature are far from the rule in 



