Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-07
YELLOW FEVER CLAIMS
EIGHT MORE VICTIMS
28 ADDITIONAL CASES IN NEW ORLEANS
It Is Expected That the Marine Hospital Service Will AS
Charge of the SituatOn-Citzens Pledge
Money for Expenses of Sanitation

10 Slludleu AT the MOUTH OI lHe Oene-
gal. The first authentic accounts of
yellow fever in Africa are descriptions
Of an epidemic that prevailed at ST.
Louis in 177s, and was traced to i'm
portation from Sierra Leone.
Writers who adhere to the theory of
the West Indian origin of yellow fever
| discredit all chronicles of previous
prevalences in Africa, declaring that
the gulf of Mexico has always been
the headquarters of the disease, and
affirm that the pestilences that occur
red in West Africa before 1878 were
not yellow fever. However this may
be, It is clear that the accounts of
these early epidemics on both sides of
the ocean are sufficiently inexact to
cause a wide division of opinion among
prevalences of yellow fever in West
Africa there can be no doubt. The
gold coast and portions of the Garbia
| and Senegal coasts have been so fire.
quently visited that it does not seem
at all Incredible that the disease is at
present endemically fixed on those
sections and that the succeeding out
breaks have not in all cases been due
to a fresh importation Of infection.
Reports Repeated Outbreaks
I'm recent foreign Office publica-
tion the British vice consul at Grand
Bassam discusses the extensive pre-
valence of yellow fever in that French
colony in 1893, and says that the, dis
ease had reappeared again and again
in such continuous and disastrous out
breaks that in 1899 it was proposed to
abandon the town completely. In 1900
! Goree-Dakar.
lowing to the recent rumors of yell
low fever on the west coast of Africa, a
request was made June 70, 1905, to the
consul general at Monrovia, Liberia, for
report on the prevalence of the dis
ease. The British vice consul at Grand
Bassam states that in 1903 the NOR
tality was no less than so per cent Of
the population. Quite recently steps
have been taken for the determination
of mosquitoes at Grand Bassam, at
which point the marshy land does not
enter the coast farther than about 200
yards.
1.-THE United States consul at Sierra
Leone, writing at the beginning of the
former extensive epidemic, says that
the infected strip extended from the
Gold coast on the east up to and in-
Guiding Half Jack on the west. The
west African islands have suffered from
time to time from yellow fever, which,
however, does not appear to have
tend inward on the African con-
tinent. Three years ago the consul at
kind of quarantine was being main
tanned in the Canary islands against
arrivals from the French ivory coast.
1.-THE health of Dakar, where yellow
unimportant to the western hemis-
phere. 1t is the only true port of Sene-
gal, and is visited by Atlantic steamers
on their way from France to South
munication with Sierra Leone and
places to the southeast and north, It
is in position to receive or transmit con-
tagious diseases existing in that Sec
ton. Dakar is stopping point on the
trade route between Bordeaux and
Pernambuco thirteen days. and Rio de
Janiero (sixteen days). Goree has all
open roadstead, where vessels anchor
at some distance from shore, and there
is bar that renders the port of St,
Louis difficult of access.
Fever In Republics to South
During the week ending July one
case of yellow fever occurred at Sierra
Blanca, near Vera Cruz. where a mum
Der of cases have been reported lately,
and one case, with one death. at Te-
hauntepec, a river port of the isthmus
of Tehuantepec, having a population of
about $1,000, mostly descendants of In
dians. Tehauntepec has small coast
Ing ana nshiHs lrdue anu eAports lHuiEo
and salt.
lone case of yellow fever was re-
ported at Vera Cruz July IL. At Belize.
British Honduras, during the week end
ing July there was an additional case,
with one death; in Honduras seven
cases, with three deaths from yellow
fever, occurred at Puerto Cortez in the
ported to be epidemic at San Pedro.
thirty-five miles from Puerto Cortez.
on the line of railroad. All the smaller
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