The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-08
faced the ep demic; of these As, 500 were at
tackled and 1887 were killed by it.

SOME TERRIBLE EPlDEMICS.
At Malaga, in Spain, in 1902, 1900 Il
! Il. 900 died out of a population in the SAME
CITY of ll0,0UO in 1904. only 1000 escaped
an attack and 5000 died of the epidemic
in four weeks A more accurate authority
estimates the population In 1904 to have
| been 80 600 exclusive of the army and
prisoners; of these lisa fled, Is, 781 were
atiacked, and II ,4S6 died.
In Carthagens, out of $4,000 people,
| 1870 died The epidemic scourged Gibral-
| tar the same year, and out of population
of Is. 900 no less tnan ;, 1913 died, nearly two
| out If five The Rock of Gibraltar was
again visited by yellow feve: in 1913, 1914,
! ana 1925. In The epidemic of 1928, from
| Augu { to Jan. II, 1867 died.
la the year 1904 Other cities in Spain were
desolcted by the epidemic, for the official
report of deaths from yellow fever in spain
for that caamitous year amounted to l24, 900
and the population of the kingdom was
diminished 100000
FEVER IN THE NORTH.
In the year 1908 the city of Quebec, in
Canada, near the r. north latitude, based
on siluran rocks, 400 miles from the sea,
was visited by the yellow fever in the mi /
die of August.
In tbs el demic at New Orleans in 1919,
out of pulation Of $1,000, upward of
In St augustine, Fla, the fever pre-
val ed in S2l, and of l40 unacclimated
peop,e att ckeI, i32 died.
At Pensacola in 1922 out of population
Of 1000 20 died.
In 1922 in New Orleans, in the Charity
hosp tai 349 cases were admitted, mostly
cases in cxtremis, picked up on the streets;
Of this number 239 died.
The number of deaths from yellow fever
", Col Aurir,y fIn at,i,1aI1iC ~ SI.~
was I'll. In New Orleans the yellow fever
was declared epidemic Sept. |, and at
tanned its maximum mortality on Sept. 25
1867
There are some curious facts connected
with the rRvagel of yellow fever mortality.
At Gibraltar, rocky promontory. three
miles IN length, seven in circumference, an
area Of 400 acres, covered with Garth Only
In a few places, 1900 feet air3tv the sea,
which washes the lase o. its PERCEPTIONS
walls, where ia a popuIa;i"a O: 1A,00 in
1874, in the course Of n isw rcei-s, j,;33
died from yellow frver-IeaiiY two IN five.
NEW ORLEANS EP,DEM;Cs
In the epidemic of 1853, AT New Orleans,
the population was l5000O-300J0 fled FROM
the city. The four weeks ending Aug. IS
in that year, gave an average yellow fever
mortality OF l,2ll per week. The first
death from yellow fever was reported the
last week in May. In the week ending
Aug. 81 the maximum mortality from vel
low fever was l,345; other causes l52. The
greatest number of deaths on any one day
was on Aug %, when the we're 2S3, OF
whom 239 were from yellow fever The
greatest number of deaths in any one
month va, ), $50, that OF August; and add
ing other causes, CPS, which gave the
startling average of pol per dav, 9
every hour, ana l every six or seven
minutes for whole month in that afflicted
city. The Howard Association alone had
under its immediate care ll0SS yellow
fever patients, of whom 2,942 died. and
s, lag recovered. at an expen liture of S15J,-
1910 81, or $l4 IS /! per head. The donations
from all parts of tIe union were $22S on as
In the epidemic Of 1861, at New Orleans,
the number of deaths was from $500 to
4 ZOO.
THE EPIDEMIC OF 1854.
The epidemic of 1854 in Savannah be-
gan the latter part of August and
lasted until November. The city then
had an estimated population of 1900,
and the total mortality from the
fever was COS. The MORNING NEWS pub
lished, at the end of the epidemic, the follow
ing statement of the mortality from fever
by weeks during its progress: