The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-16
YELLOW TxvER.

Our dispatches continue 10 announce
tho appearance Of yellow fever In Georgia
and FLORIDA II WAS once believed that
yellow fever was not known in America
until the importation Of slaves to the West
Indies, but there are rnquestionable his
toricai evidences that It existed in San
Domingo in 1893; in Porto Rico in 1908; in
Panama In 1914: in Gaudaloups in 1855.
and In Havana from 164S to 1856. 1t
clearly prevailed In the West Indies be-
fore any slaves were brought from Africa.
II has ranged from Montsvideo in South
America to Halifax and Quebec; has
scourgsd spain. Marseilles and Leghorn.
II touched England and France on the
Atlanta side. but never there gained any
focthold ~ an epidemic. 1t has in its
history ravaeed the West Indies and the
whole coast Of the Gulf of Mexico, strik.
Ing Vera Cruz. Galveston. New Orleans,
Pensacola and West Florida. On the Pa.
chic coast il has ranged from Cailao in
Peru to Guaymas in Mexico. 1t visited
New YORK city 63 times from 1858 to 1873.
Philadelphia 81 times from 1895 to 1870,
Charleston 50 times from 1870 to 1871, Nor
folk Is times from i7a7 to 1855, Pensacola
Is times from 1764 to 1857, Mobile Is times
from l7o5 TO ISIS. 1t first appeared in
New Orleans IS an epidemic in 1876. and
has seourged the Mississippi valley from
New Orleans to Meridian. Miss, and
Memphis. Tenn, its last notable visitation
being in 1857 and 1878
Since lss2 q strict quarantine has re-
pulsed il as an epidemic in Europe and in
the United States north of Norfolk, Va.
IL has been domiciled at Havana since
1871. Since lssa IL has constantly occupied
Rio Janeiro and Vera Cruz, and since 1865
il has been endemic at Panama and
Colon. In the United States II has never
prevailed ~ a greater height than so feet
ABOVE the sea. but il has ragged In the city
of CuRco, Peru, at the height of li,0Oo
feet. Ii exists IN the Cult Of Mexico, but
no, on the Indian ocean. Negroes are less
susceptible ~ il than whites.
IL i, distinc, from malarial fever. for
quinine which controls malariai fever has
not the slishtes; influence upon yellow
fever. Heat up 10 10 degrees must have
been maintained for q considerable time
| to give its poison activity 10 spread: il /,
| checked by frosts aud finally killed by 70.
/ peatei fros,s. 1t is not contagious in the
| ordinary sense: tha. Is, II Is not com.
| municatsd by mere contact With the per.
son afflicted, the germs must 60 through
= secondary process Of fermentation before
I they become contagious.
/ Beyond the evacuation Of the bowels and
use o; an Ynesic TO clean the stomach or
indigessef food a, the outset, drugs are
worse than useless. All that can be don.
Is TO give alcoholic drinks in moderation
- frequent Intervals. promote persnirs
i!en, give small quantities Of food in q
hsh, auid form. allowing no solid food
whatever and keep the patient in a hon.
aon,ai position for i've days. The walk
ing patients" invariably die.
/ yellow fever is specific aud self-limi,.,
| disease and the sufferer is either a.as q,
out Of danger on The ffth day. TWENTY
per cent. of the physickesi and iniudi.
ciousiy fed die. The so-caIled black vomi,
which generally implies fatal termina.
ton Of the attack. IS nothing be. blood.
discharged by the degcners,ed vessels OF
the stomach ana colored by its acids.
The mortality in yellow fever ranges
from S per cent to ~ per cent. varying
greatly with the weather, the climate and
the condition Of the patient. The yellow
fever has bes,, epidemic six times IN New
York city during its history and one Of its
worss visitassoas occurred in she last de-
cads OF the lass century. Rigid quaran-
tie regulations efsctaaiiy exclude ysllcv