Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

sons-10 per cent Of the population
died. -Four years later Philadelphia suf-
fered another visitation. with death
loss of 1900, and in the year following
3,645 deaths from the fever occurred.
In 1898 New York also was attacked
by the epidemic, 1850 persons dying,
! while Boston gave 200 victims to the
disease in the same year. In 1902 Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Whining
ton and Charleston suffered extensively
from the spread of the fever along the
| coast, but since that time epidemics
have been confined more nearly to the
Southern States. New York, however,
has never been immune
In 1858 there was a widespread cpl
demic, taking in Florida, Arkansas and
| Texas. Many deaths from the fever
occurred in New York City in the same
year. In 1867 there was another cpl
demic, more limited in area, but par
ticularly virulent in Galveston. Texas,
where the mortality reached 1850. Then
occurred the great epidemic of 1873. In
that year Memphis furnished 1000 vic
TINS. New Orleans proper lost only 225
from the disease, but the neighboring
Then came the most terrible year of
all-1S7S-a year whose mention causes
shudder throughout the land, and
whose numerals are Synonymous with
death in the cities of New Orleans and
Memphis. The fever invaded 1872 towns
in Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis-
sissppi and Kentucky. There were
more than $4,000 cases, and the death
roll reached the tremendous total of
1884
Thousands upon thousands of citizens
fed from Memphis and New Orleans.
but of the population that remained in
the former city-about 19600-70 per
cent sickened and $3.50, or more than
% per cent, died. In New Orleans the
mortality was about the same 1t is
estimated that the loss to the country in
commercial way as a direct result of
the epidemic was above $100,000,0OO
The epidemic of 1878 furnished heroes
whose names will live with those who
fell in the Civil War of a decade and a
half before. The North not only sent
thousands of dollars and trainloads of
supplies to the stricken cities-whole
trainloads of collins, for "send collins"
was the cry sent up from the South
but physicians. nurses. priests and 9TH
ers volunteered by the hundred with their
services.
Death spared none. After fighting
valiantly for weeks the epidemic invaded
the ranks of the nurses and doctors.
and those who came as the emisSaries
Of God. In Memphis seventeen resident
physicians and twenty-eight volunteers
from other cities sacrificed their lives.
Ten Roman Catholic priests. eleven Sis
ters of Charity of the same church and
half a score Of ministers of Protestant
denominations also were among the vol
unteer workers who died in their heroic
work
There has been 10 outbreak of the
fever since 1878 to excite widespread
alarm until this year In 1898 there
was a scare. 1916 cases prevailing at
Brunswick, Ga, but Only forty-six per-
sons died. In 1897 there was another
scare, fifty-nine deaths occurring out of
total of $40 cases.
Previous TO the SpaniSh-American war
Havana had been the chief infected port
from which yellow fever penetrated to
lHe otdtts- ccIetIce anu the NdrIafe on
the stegomyia rasciata following Ameri-
can occupation cleansed Havana of the
scourge \ Panama victim is believed
to have brought the fever to New Or
leans and started the present epidemic
there.
St. Louis and Cincinnati were among
the cities that suffered during the cpl
demic of 1878. several deaths occurring
in each, although both are slightly north
of what now is regarded as the boundary
OF the yellow fever zcne
Judge Dana of Richland Kan. decid-
ed that braying was the hereditary right
of every donkey and dissolved a tempo
rary injunction obtained by the postmis-
tress of that town against Tibbetts &
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