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Shown is the August 1893 issue of the Occidental Medical Times, a continuation of the erstwhile Sacramento Medical Times. The former was described by the July 1892 Sacramento Daily Union as “replete with reports, cases, data, papers, society proceedings, etc., of special value to medical men.” The Special Pure Water Number – backed by both Sacramento and San Francisco’s most prominent physicians – advocated for the establishment of “pure subterranean water,” as opposed to the bacteria laden drinking water that was being drawn from the Sacramento River via Holly compression pump, located at the base of I Street. The scourges of Southern Pacific-generated pollutants (causing dead fish in China Slough), hydraulic mining along the American and Yuba Rivers, and Folsom Prison sewage made the issue even more pressing for the region’s medical professionals. The city’s water question lingered, finding resolution with the 1924 construction of a state-of-the art water filtration plant, the first of its kind west of the Rocky Mountains. Founded in 1887, the Occidental Medical Times ceased print in 1903.
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