San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-28

the following year, again, 1870: in ,a,o
$3.50; in 1867, 3,093. These were ro
of the heaviest death rates, while - ian ~
other years in which the epidemic we
peared the rate is all the way from o ap
to five hundred. que
In 1873, at the time of the enao.,
in Shreveport, there were 759 dss,Sse
while the same year Memphis lost %;
lives. Galveston has had more vell"n
fever than Memphis in the lonS ' ~"
Memphis is credited with having fba .s an
idemic in '53, '55 and SO only, besiSp.
the year 1873, and in the first three vea's
named no mortality figures are civan
Galveston, on the other hand, had siaCa.
of it in the following years: $50, "a ~
'53, '54, '58, $50, ga, '66 and 1867. Their
were in these epidemical years never vsr
less than 1872 deaths, and in 1867, / ',a
persons died. In all Galveston has Io..
1925 lives by yellow fever since 1890
Mobile has had full share of the dread
disease, losing lila lives, most of which
since 1889, when there were $50 deaths
Florida has suffered only to the extent
of about 700 deaths since 1765, when
there were 1875 deaths at Pensacola
The same place has mortality list of 90
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 1874
there were II deaths at Cairo, which il
the only item down opposite the State
of Illinois.
Besides the epidemics at New Orleans
and the one year of 1873 at Shreveport
Louisiana has Jared easily. Baltimore.
Md, is credited with the epidemic a
dozen or fifteen times since 1874, the
last time being in 1868, but no mortality
list is given. In 1868 there were 25S
deaths at Nantucket, and in 1898 there
were 200 deaths in Boston, Mass.
Natchez, Miss, has suffered severely,
notably in 1928, 1887 and 1S39-the
years in which most of the Southern
cities suffered. Her death-rate amounts
to over 1000 between the years 1917 and
1910. Since 1910 she has escaped al.
most altogether. Miss9uri-St. Louis is
credited with the fever in 1854 and lS55,
but no death-rate is stated. There are
81 deaths recorded at New Design, 20
miles below St. Louis, in 1857, and that
is all down opposite Missouri. In 1898
Portsmouth, n. H., lost 100 lives. 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 a death.rate of 2,OsO persons. In
1902 there were $40 deaths. In 1903,
700; in 1905, $40; and all along up to
1878 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 Will
mington, the same State. In 1899 Phil
adelphia had over 200 deaths, as it did
in 1741; in 1893 the rate reached a, O4l;
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 80 small State in 1896, 1877
and 1898. Charleston absorbed South
Cardinals share of the epidemic and
lost several thousand persons, princi-
pally between the years 1920 and 1889;
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
it has been since 1867. The years which
are given rs being very violent in New
Orleans indicate the years when the dis
ease was more or less general.