i8 Tehama County 



vey, to the mind of the reader that we have no sickness or 

 deaths in Tehama County, but I do claim that the general 

 health of our people is far better than that of any county in 

 the great Sacramento Valley. Situated as we are, at the ex- 

 treme head of the valley, with an altitude of 370 feet above 

 sea level, protected from cold winds of the north, east and 

 west by the two great mountain ranges, we have a most 

 equable climate, which is the first and most important factor 

 of health. 



Drs. J. M. West and J. A. ( )\ven, two of the leading 

 physicians of Tehama County, unite in saying that all the 

 elements of climate so essential to health exists in almost 

 perfect degree in Tehama County, and the experience of 

 physicians, who have practiced medicine in this county for 

 twenty years or more verify the conclusions drawn from 

 hygiene, and meteorology. Malarial diseases have prevailed 

 to a limited extent along the alluvial lands where streams 

 are subject to overflow during the rainy season, but culti- 

 vation of these lands and clearing the dense undergrowth 

 of vegetation from the belts of timber along the streams are 

 rapidly causing them to disappear. 



Diseases arising from malaria in the above localities are 

 of a mild type and easily arrested. Epidemic diseases have 

 been of rare occurrence, and are so modified by climatic 

 influences that they have lost their malignancy. ]\Ieasles 

 and whooping-cough are so mild in type, and complications 

 of the respiratory organs so infrequent, that physicians are 

 rarely called to treat them. Typhoid fever is of rare oc- 

 currence. In twelve years we have not treated a dozen 

 cases in the county. 



We also have "natural" physicians in the shape of min- 

 eral springs which furnish waters of rare medicinal qualities. 

 To the west of Red BlulT thirty miles, at an altitude of 

 5,000 feet, in the Coast Range, is Colyear's Springs, whose 

 health giving waters are freely enjoyed during the summer 

 months by hundreds of people who go there to enjoy the 

 hunting and fishing, as well as to recuperate physical weak- 

 ness. 



Then to the east some fifty miles, at the foot of Mount 



