The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-12
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THF BRUNswIoK EPIpEMIc.
Tt is a Fin de Steele Fever, Not Like
the Usual Before the War Yellow
Enuar-

Tt is a Fin de Steele Fever, Not Like
| the Usual Before the War Yellow
Fever.
! From the Charleston News and Courier.
! From the inception of the disease the
! yellow fever epidemic in Brunswick has
contained several striking and mysterious
! features The origin of the disease in
Brunswick has never been discovered,
| and this in itself is in striking variance
to the history Of a fever which has, IN the
opinion of some excellent authorities
never become epidemic except through
contagiOn.
The first case was that of a hospital
surgeon who, as far as is known, had not
come III contact with any case Of the
plague. The disease appeared with
suddenness which has never been eX
planned Then the physicians in charge
disagreed as to The nature OF the disease
from which The patient was suffering. The
most eminent yellow fever experts in
America made diagnoses. They spent
days in observing symptoms, and IN deoa-
ting over their causes and cOnseq uenccs,
and finally did no more than succeed in
disngrceing over the character OF the
disease. Authority was equally eminent
on each side, and it was nearly equally
divided in point OF numerical strength,
but a slight prepOnderance of opinion lent
itself to the side of declaring the case
yellow fever, and so 1t has been called
ever since.
The later medical authorities agree
that from Is to 10 per cent. is the usual
yellow fever death rate, though there
have been incidents in which epidemics
have prod uCed a smaller mortality. The
jacksonville epidemic of few years ago
is case in point. In Brunswick the
present death rate has fallen to 3 per
cent. and is still on the decline But
there is possibly a still more striking pc
cularity of the Brunswick epidemic. In
past years the negro has Sunored compar-
alive immunity from the rayages of the
disease. He has taken it freely in some
instances, but always less easily than the
white man, and his attack has nearly in
variably been the IS severe of the two.
The reports from Brunswick show a
marked contrast to this record. The ne
groes are there the heavier sufferers.
The daily dispatches announce that five
or six negroes take the disease where one
white man is attacked by it.
The United Press dispatch published
yesterday morning states that Of thirty
new cases four were white and twenty
six COlOred-a difference which would be
striking ia any disease, but one which is
peculiarly so in view Of statistics regard
ing yellow fever epidemics.
AZ Lu6 elSutteiitu duuudl uIctGllB Oi
the American Public Health Association
held in Charleston in the month of De
cemher, 1890, DR. ii. B. Horlbeck of the
Charleston health Office, read an interest
ing and valuable paperUn Maritime San
itation at Ports Of Arrival"
In this paper DR.. Horlbeck gives a table
containing the number of deaths which
have occurred from yellow fever during
the various years in which il had been
epidemic in Charleston, noting the ratio
of mortality between the two races. The
following extracts from this table will be
instructive at this time: