RT Journal T1 MEdical news JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1909 FD February 6 VO LII IS 6 SP 478 OP 488 DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540320050011 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540320050011 AB CALIFORNIA  Itinerant Sanitary Inspection.—A traveling car illustrating sanitary methods of preventing disease is soon to start on a tour around the state, in charge of Surgeon W. Colby Rucker, P. H. & M.-H. Service. In this car is installed an exhibit showing how typhoid fever, tuberculosis and other diseases may be prevented.Pasadena Will Report Infectious Diseases.—The mayor and council of Pasadena have recently passed resolutions in favor or more rigid enforcement of the ordinance compelling the report of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, and have also made provision for the fumigation of rooms and houses made vacant by infected or tuberculous patients at the expense of the city. The medical society of Pasadena heartily supports the proposition.Hospital Notes.—A dispensary was opened January 18, at the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association, under the direction of the San Francisco Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.—The Okabe Hospital Association has been