Moved by Dr. Titus, that the test of qualification for membership be the same as that adopted by the State Medical Society. BY-LAWS. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 define the business of the officers. 6. Declares that meetings shall be held at Placerville, on the second Saturday of each month. 7. Decides about the business of the following standing committees of the club: On soils and their improvement; on cereals; on root and other crops; on trees and timber; on fruit (trees and vineyard); on domestic animals; on library. The club elected Hon. Robert Chalmers and G. G. Blanchard to represent the club at the Farmers' State The convention adjourned to meet again at Placer- Club Convention meeting at Sacramento during the vivlle on May 24th, 1856. This organization shall be known as "El Dorado County Farmers' Club, No. 1." its 2d. Its object shall be the improvement of members in the theory and practice of agriculture. 3d. Its members, additional to its original number, shall consist of such as shall receive a two-third vote for admission, and pay the sum of one dollar, and annually thereafter. 4th. Its officers shall consist of a President, Vice President, Treasurer and Librarian-who jointly constitute the Executive Committee-and shall be elected annually. 5th. Its meetings shall be held monthly, and at such time and place as the President may deem necessary to the good of the society. 6th. This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting, said amendment having been proposed at the previous meeting. State Fair. At a meeting for the purpose of reorganizing the El Dorado County Agricultural Society, held at Placerville, November 21st, 1877, there was a good attendance and much interest manifested. It was moved that the officers should consist of: President, two Vice Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Financial Secretary, Treasurer and seven Directors; and that the Directors shall constitute a Board of Managers. The following officers were then elected for the ensuing year: Geo. G. Blanchard, President; J. G. O'Brien, of Cold Springs, and E. C. Day, of Kelsey, Vice Presidents; Charles H. Wetherwax, Financial Secretary; Wm. Wiltse, Recording Secretary; John Blair, Treasurer; Directors-W. H. Valentine, Coloma; J. H. Miller, Latrobe; N. Gilmore, El Dorado; E. R. Peace, Georgetown; Thomas Hardie, and H. S. Morey, Placerville; C. G. Carpenter, Diamond Springs. TERRITORIAL PIONEERS. Of 1849, and 1850, residing in El Dorado county. The undersigned invite you to unite with them in a Society to be called the Territorial Pioneers of 1849 and 1850. The name indicates the nature and objects of the Society. Giving the post of honor to the Pioneers of Forty-nine, our Society would embrace all those who came here prior to September 9th, 1850, the date of the admission of California in to the Federal Union. Such a Society will serve to reveal and re-unite early and unselfish friends, and to bring back to the memory many others who should not be forgotten. It will revive and keep alive the fading recollections of the "flush times," when hopeful and generous adventure was the princely almoner of wealth that seemed to be exhaustless. It will serve to recall the voluntary goodness and self-governing morality of a time when custom was king, and the custom was to do as one pleased. It will help with mutual consolation, and make it more pleasant to pass from a lately. primeval "golden age" to a future of serious effort and steady habits. It will sustain and elevate the Darwin DeGolia, E. N. Strout, Geo. G. Blanchard, H. W. A. Worthen, At the first meeting of the Territorial Pioneers of '49 and '50, on September 9th, 1871, they organized by electing as officers the following gentlemen: John F. Pinkham, President; Dr. H. W. A. Worthen, 1st Vice Presindent, A. A. Howard, 2d Vice President; John Angus, W. B. Wallace, Recording Secretary; J. L. Perkins, George W. Frater, Corresponding Secretary; Colonel Wm. Jones, Treas- James Moon, urer. Directors-John F. Pinkham, W. B. Wallace, Nathaniel B. Dryden, B. F. Frost, G. J. Carpenter, Charles Broad, David John Mosby Price, Bennett and E. N. Strout. Marshal, E. N. Strout Saturday on or preceding the full moon in December, March and June, was fixed for meeting days; the annual meeting to be held on September 9th. There were 287 names of members on the roll. Paul Mitchell, S. F. Child, Jno. G. Vanderheyden, A branch of the Society of Territorial Pioneers are the "Pioneers of El Dorado," outside of the county, are keeping an annual gathering at Badger's Park, East Oakland, for which purpose no tickets are issued and no money taken at the gates, but the B F. Edmonds, sylvan shades of said park are as free as the pine- Robert Chalmers, covered mountain sides of El Dorado county. The President of the society at the present time is W. T. Gibbs; W. H. Bodfish, Recording Secretary; Thos. McMannis, Treasurer; Vice Presidents and Executive Committee are: B. T. Catlin, Benj. Dore, D. W. Gelwicks, J. P. Wonderdich, Robert Bell, John Satch. L. B. McClain, well and F. M. Thal. The list of Vice Presidents Charles Barker, includes the following well known names: L. B. Hop. Richard Murphy, kins, 1875; J, G. Brewton, 1876; Robert Bell, 1877, E. S. Barney, Thomas McMannis, 1878; James J. Green, 1879 Mat. Morgan, Dr. I. S. Titus, 1880; James C. Pennie, 1881. Wm. Morgan, John F. Pinkham, Thomas Coppinger, George Beattie, A. C. Dale, Joshua W. Lance, John Gale, Lewis Dubray, James S. Hartman, A. G. Stewart, A. Darlington, T. C. Nugent, Wm. Jones, Benj. F. Post, J. Q. A. Ballard, Col. S. Altar, L. L. Ramsay, Robert A. Jeffries, Jeremiah W. Kendall, J. H. Miller, T. G. Barton, Flemming Jones, Barney O'Rourke, James Sharp, F. T. Ramsey, Dr. D. Stewart Smith, J. C. F. Koepcke, Dr. W. E. Spencer, G. L. Vaughn, Guillaum Barrette. George W. Vaugah, David Bennett, Wm. Newland, J. G. O'Brien, Wm. L. Rhodes, William Christian, George E. Rigsby, D. W. Chichester, H. Brian. M. C. Metzler, William H. Cooper, Russel Bronson, Frank Gerbode, Chas. M. King, J. W. Foster, S. D. Colburn, George H. H. Forester, A. B. Bates, J. G. Bailey, Samuel Spong, Patrick Martin, Henry Larkin, James R. Johnson, S. E. Kyburz, John Gould, Wm. McCormick, H. O. Hooper, R. G. R. Moore, J. W. Annabel, From the organization of the county up to the year 1855, the citizens of the county had been heavily taxed for the support of the indigent sick in the county, who had to be removed to the Marine Hospital at Fan Francisco. But the State Legislature in 1854 to 1855, in accordance with the general dislike of the people to go there, abolished this use of the Marine Hospital and made provision for each county to take care of its own indigent sick. Whereupon the Board of Supervisors of El Dorado county, under date of June 9th, 1855, awarded the contract to take care of and provide for the indigent sick of the county to Drs. Clark and Harvey, two well known physicians of Placerville. The substance of this contract was to the following effect: that both these gentlemen bind themselves to render their medical services and to furnish an appropriate building for the sum of $3,500 for the time of one year, the county furnishing all other materials necessary for the patients. The Broadway hotel, in Upper Placerville was rented, and arrangements made for its occupation as the first hospital. The first county hospital report was presented to the Board of Supervisors of this county, for the quarter ending December 20th, 1856, to March 20th, 1857. The report gives the number of patients remain ing in the hospital on December 10th, 1856.. IO Admissions for the quarter.... 26 Nativity of Deaths. Ireland, 1; Germany, 2; United States, 1. The contract system, however, was not abolished so soon in the administration of the county hospital. The contract for the seventh and eighth year, in Many of the cases admitted are more properly 1861 and 1862, was awarded to Drs. John Cook and subjects for an infirmary than a hospital, the primary I. S. Titus, and not before the expiration of their term design of which is for the treatment of acute or remedial disease, and the speedy restoration of the invalid to the active walks of life. This number includes those who are afflicted incurably, the aged and imbecile, and those whose mutilations from disease or acci-ton concerning the location and condition of the dent incapacitates them from earning a livelihood. them. did the county hospital go under the direct superindence of the county administration, with Dr. John Cook as acting physician. The following statement of the Board of Auditors will give the best informa county hospital, together with all of its other affairs and arrangements. For fourteen Under our imperfect hospital system the insane alone have been provided with an asylum under State During its whole existence, the county hospital of patronage. The deaf and dumb, the blind, the indi- El Dorado county has been one of the best managed gent sick, the poor, the destitute and unprotected are institutions of the kind in the State. left to the benevolent care of the respective counties, years Dr. John Cook devoted a large share of his and to the humane consideration of individuals, and time to it, and its present satisfactory condition is a large portion of whom necessarily become inmates due, in a great measure, to the fostering care it reof the county hospital. This class of cases have received at his hands. Its situation is one of the most ceived at our hands that consideration due to their healthful that could possibly have been selected. unfortunate condition, although the terms of our con- Located on the flank of Quartz Hill, with a southern tract do not oblige us to take charge of and maintain exposure, it is elevated above all miasmatic influences, while a small ditch, a branch of the South Fork canal, supplies it with an abundance of water for irrigating purposes. The soil, originally fertile, has been well manured, and is capable of raising anything that can be raised in this altitude. The grounds-including the pest house-comprises 8.92 acres; all enclosed with a substantial fence. The buildings are large, roomy, well ventilated and conveniently arranged. Dr. Proctor, the present physician, is following faithfully in the footsteps of his predecessor. Economy is the order of the day. Although the present yield from the garden is large, arrangements have been made to increase the income from this source materially. Of deaths there have been a much smaller number than during the preceding quarter. Only four have died, and one of the number was dead on reaching the hospital. O. HARVEY, M. D. Under this contract system the expenses of the county for hospital purposes were : In the first year, from June 9th, 1855, to 1866..... $15,000 11,500 In the second year, from June 9th, 1856, to 1857.... In the third year, from June 9th, 1857, to 1858..... 7,000 In the fourth year, from June 9th, 1858, to 1859..... 7,000 4,800 In the fifth year, from June 9th, 1859, to In this connection, the following letter, in answer to a communication from the Supervisors of Nevada county, soliciting information on the subject, will doubtless prove interesting to the people in general: OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF AUDITORS, PLACERVILLE, EL DORADO COUNTY, December 1, 1877. Dear Sir-The Board of Auditors have directed me to reply to yours of the 1st inst. Our hospital system is really a combination of Hospital and Infirmary, both the helpless indigent and the indigent sick being accommodated at the same institution. The system substantially conforms to the several enactments of the Legislature received thereto.. Vide Statutes 1855, pp. 67; 1867, 215; 1875-6, 681; and the Codes. The County Physician has direct management, under the control of the Board of Auditors. His salary for hospital services is $100 per month. The Greenwood ... Hospital supplies Big Bar... 115 81 165 85 278 179 62 92 125 28 368 234 1812 and ground belong to the county. are all purchased by contract. whatever from the paupers. The for several years past is 25 cents. had a per capita tax of $150. amount was passed two years The amount of taxable property in the county, mistake in engrossing, the Act is a nullity. All taxes $3,151,618-on which amount a tax of 15 cents on for this county are levied by the Legislature. The one hundred dollars was levied for county school Total.... taxes for this year will pay nearly, if not all, accrued purposes. hospital indebtedness to January 1, 1878. The school census of 1858 gave but 1,736 children We have a few indigent persons on the outside-between 4 and 18 years; of these 700 attended school not in the hospital-who are not able to make a living, during the year, the average attendance being 412. but have homes; who are allowed, each, a small The county received an appropriation out of the State amount monthly by the county, and in that way School Fund during the year of $2,881 07. The total manage to get along. amount expended for school purposes was $9,141 59. H. S. Herrick, County Superintendent of Schools, in December, 1860, gave the following figures concerning the school statistics: Below you find a statement of entire cost of hospital for twelve months. The average of cost, 47.7 cents per day, includes physician's, steward's and cook's salaries, burying dead, repairs, (which have been considerable this year) and everything of whatever nature that is a hospital charge. STATEMENT-Whole amount of warrants drawn on Hospital Fund, for twelve months commencing December 1, 1876, $6,481 89. Of this amount, there was drawn for outside purposes such as indigent persons not in hospital, burying outside poor, etc., $659. Actual amount applied to hospital.. Very respectfully, The number of children in the county between the ages of 4 and 18 years, was 2,449; of whom 1,289 were boys, and 1,160 girls. Under 4 years, of both sexes, were 1,289, and between 18 and 21 years, 188; 2,042 were born in California; deaf and dumb, 3; blind, 2. The total number attending school was 1,127; the average attendance was 704 and a fraction. The aggregate cost of school houses and furniture in the county has been $9,863. The total receipts for $5,822 89 school purposes during the year 1860 have been 33,153 00 $13,773; $13,641 have been paid for teachers' salaries. 47.7 cents and the total amount expended for school purposes. during the same year has been $16,460. |