The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-30

the following year, again. 2,67O; in lsss
!. Ss9; in 1867, 3,O93. These were wears
Of the heaviest death rates, while II nv
other years In which the epidemic an ,as
peared the rate Is all the way from on r
TO five hundred.
In 1878, at the time of the epidemic
in Shreveport, there were -5y deaths
while the same year Memphis lost .22i
lives. Galveston has had more yellow
fever than Memphis in the long run
Memphis IL credited with having The On.
idemic in SO, 80 and 80 only, besides
the year 1873, and in the first three wears
named no mortality figures are given
Galveston, on the other hand, had sieces
Of it in the following years '39, VA. N
'53, "a, '5s, $50, "a, &c and 1867. Thers
were in these epidemical years never
less than ls2 deaths, and IN 1867, l,l50
persons died. In all Galveston has lost
3, 125 lives by yellow fever since 1899
Mobile has had full share Of the dread
disease, losing ia lives, most Of which
since 1889, when there were $50 deaths.
Florida has suffered only to the extent
Of about 700 deaths since 1865, when
there wnre 1925 deaths at Pensacola
The same place has mortality list Of 81
in 1873. In 1854 there were $50 deaths
in Savannah, Ga, which Is about the
only year the yellow fever ever amount
ed TO any thing in that State. In 1873
there were IL deaths at Cairo. which is
the only item down opposite the State
of Illinois.
Besides the cpidemics at New Orleans
~ nd TIM 49, 1870 ~
Louisiana has Jared easily Baltimore,
Md, is credited with the epidemic d
dozen or fifteen times since 1894, the
last time being in 1868, but no mortality
list is given. In 1868 there were 25g
deaths at Nantucket, and in 1898 there
were 200 deaths in Boston, Mass.
Natchez, Miss, has suffered severely.
notably in 1923, 1887 and 1s39-the
years in which most of the Southern
cities suffered. Her death-rate amounts
to over 1000 between the years 1871 and
1910. Since 1910 she has escaped al
most altogether. Missouri-St Louis is
credited with the fever in 1854 and 1855,
but no aeath-rate is stated. There are
81 deaths recorded at New Design, 20
miles below St. Louis, in 1867, and that
- uii INV II VpfOSitC Nliosouiis III 1850
Portsmouth, N. H., lost 100lives. This
Is the same year the fever was epidemic
on the New England coast
New Jersey has got off very lightly.
In that fatal year Of 1898 New York City
has death-rate Of 1850 persons. In
1902 there were $40 deaths. In 1903,
700; in 1905, $40; and all along up TO
1873 the city has had death rate. but
never reaching any thing like the figures
above.
In 1864 there were 700 deaths at New
Berne, North Carolina, and two years
before there were 446 deaths at Viii
mington, the same State. In 1859 Phil
adelphia had over 200 deaths, as it did
in l74i in 1898 the rate reached 4.04l
in 1897, 1900; in 1898. $500; in 1899,
1000, and more or less Of it till 1870
Rhode Island had several good-sized
doses for so small State in 1896, 1791
and 1898. Charleston absorbed South
Cardinals share Of the epidemic and
lost several thousand persons, princi
pally between the years 1920 and 1883;
again between 1850 and 1860. Norfolk
and Portsmouth, Va, in the same coun-
ty, in 1855 had together death rate Of
$500.
This year the epidemic is worse than
il has been since 1867. The years which
are given as being very violent in New
Orleans indicate the years when the dis
ease was more or less general.