Notes

1. John Frederick Morse, First History ofSacramento City (Sacramento 1853; reprint ed., Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1945,) 2. Win J. Davis, Illustrated HistoryofSacramento County (Chicago:

Lewis Publishing Co., 1890), pp. 127, 129, 132-37. G. WalterReed, ed., History ofSacramento County (Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1923), pp. 215-19. Thomas H. Thompson and Alfred A. West, History ofSacramento County (Oakland, 1880; reprinted., Berkeley: Howell-

North, 1960), p. 45. William Willis, History ofSacramento County (Los Angles: Historic Record Co., 1913) p. 65. “John Augustus

Sutter," World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 18 (Chicago: Field Enterprises, 1977). 3. Diary ofJohn Augustus Sutter(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932; reprinted from San Francisco Argonaut, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 1898), pp. 4, 45. 4. Ibid., p. 55. 5. F.D. Calhoon, ed. and pub., The Lassen Trail and the Memoirs of

James Eaton (Sacramento: Cal-Con Press, 1987), p. 94. 6. Bryant Berryman, M.D., “Reminiscences ofCalifornia, 1849-1852,”

California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. XL, no. 1 (March 1932), pp. 35-39. 7. AJta California (San Francisco), Aug. 4, 1849. 8. Ibid. 9. Placer Times (Sacramento), Sept. 1, 1849. 10. Notes in possession ofthe authorand Irma West, M.D., sources unidentified. 11. Eliza P. Donnor Houghton, The Expedition ofthe DonnerParty and

ItsTragic Fate (Los Angeles: Grafton, 1920), p. 132. 12. PlacerTimes, Dec. 29, 1849. 13. Ibid, and Sacramento Transcript, Nov. 12, 1850. 14. Sacramento Transcript, Sept. 24, 1850. 15. Ibid., July 22, 1850. 16. Ibid., May 2, 1850. 17. Kenneth Johnson, ed.. Gold Rush Letters ofJ.D.B. Stillman (Palo

Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967), p. 42. 18. PlacerTimes, Dec. 23, 1849. 19. Johnson, Letters ofStillman, p. 42. 20. Morse, First History, p. — 21. Calhoon, Lassen Trail, pp. 94-95. 22. William M. Stewart, Reminiscences (New York and Washington:

Neale Pub. Co., 1908), pp. 55*56. Stewart served as US Senator from

Nevada, 1864-75, 1887-1905. 23. SacramentoTranscript, Apr. 16, 1850. 24. Ibid., Apr. 12, July 4, 1850. 25. Ibid., July 4, 1850.

26. David Dustin, “A Letter from Sacramento, 1850,* Golden Notes (Sacramento County Historical Society, vol. no. 4, July 1957) p. 2. 27. Morse, First History, p. 51. 28. Valerie Gollihur, History ofSacramento Medical Center, prepared for the Sacramento Medical Center, April 1976. 29. Sacramento Transcript, Nov. 15, 16, 1850. 30. Sacramento Union, Nov. 16, 1854. 31. Sacramento Transcript, Nov. 16, 1850. 32. Ibid., July 9, Aug. 6, 1850. 33. Charles E. Nagel, “Sacramento Cholera Epidemic of 1850* (term paper, Sacramento State College [University], 1956; copy in California Room, California State Library, p. 1-21. 34. Ibid. 35. J. Roy Jones, Memories, Men and Medicine (Sacramento Society for

Medical Improvement, 1950), p. 250; Thomas Logan, M.D., “Medical

History oftheYear 1868 in California," address to Sacramento

Society for Medical Improvement, Feb. 16, 1869 (reprint, California

Room, California State Library). 36. Nan Cerruti and Dave F. Dozier, M.D., “A History ofSacramento

Medical Center," in Commentary, vol II, no. 6 (Sept. 1973), pp. 6-15, published by School ofMedicine,University ofCalifornia, Davis;

Sacramento Daily Union, May 25, 1858. 37. Note, California State Medical Journal, Jan. 1857, p. 412. 38. Cerrutiand Dozier, “History." 39. Reports ofmeetings, Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement (State Board ofHealth records, 1871-77, California Room, California

State Library), pp. 41-42; Gollihur, “History". 40. HenryJ. Short, Railroad Doctors, Hospitals and Associations,

Pioneers in Comprehensive, Low-cost Medical Care (Lakeport:

Shearer/Graphic Arts, 1986), pp. 1-6. 41. Quoted in “Sacramento forTourists, 1884: A Rail Traveler's Guide," (Golden Notes, vol. 33 , no. 2, Summer 1987, Sacramento County

Historical Society), pp. 4-5. 42. Ibid. 43. Reports, misc., May 8-June 16, 1906, State Board ofHealth, in

Sacramento Archives and Collections Center. 44. Announcements, brochures,updated, Mercy Hospitals. 45. Records, correspondence, etc., in office files, Fairhaven Retirement

Center. 46. Sacramento Bee, Jan. 20, 1927. 47. Takeoka Hospital, from the book, “Ohfu Heigen No Niskeki ShashinCho" Nihon Byoin Hospital, fromthe book “Hakka No Shion," Album ofNorthern California Nihon Hospital, Sacramento Ethnic History

Project Collection, Sacramento Archives and Collection Center. 48. Tsunesaburo Miyakawa, personalaccount (Eagle and Agnes

Miyakawa hospitals) in files ofSacramento Society Medical Improvement (now Sacramento-El Dorado County Medical Society), Elvas

Avenue. 49. Sacramento Bee, Sept. 10, 1919. 50. Ibid., Nov. 2, 1918. 51. Sacramento City Directories, various years.