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climate, diet, and occupation are among the chief remedies 

 especially of climate. Here we have the variety needed from 

 the eternal snows of the California!! Alps, through a dozen dif- 

 'ferent phases of eternal spring and summer, to the burning 

 sands of the Colorado Desert, with its four inches of rainfall 

 in a year. The patient can dwell under the palm trees or in 

 the orange groves of Los Angeles, under the giant fig trees of 

 San Luis Obispo, in the vineyards of Sonoma, in the orchards 

 of Santa Clara or of Yolo, in the evergreen oak groves of 

 Alameda, amidst the mammoth trees of Calaveras, the majes- 

 tic white oak groves of Napa, under the shadow of the cliffs 

 of Yosemite, or amidst the sulphurous fumes of Geyser Canon. 

 90. State Mortality Table. The following table of the 

 mortality of certain towns in California, for the year ending 

 June 30th, 1871, was prepared by Dr. Logan 3 Secretary of 

 the Board of Health : 



