The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-08-10

sons-10 per cent Of the population
died. Four years later Philadelphia suf.
fered another visitation, with a death
loss of 1900, and in the year following
3,645 deaths from the fever occurred.
In 179S New York also was attacked
by the epidemic, 2,0S0 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 1853 there was a widespread epi.
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 epi
demic, more limited in area, but par
ticularly virulent in Galveston. Texas
where the mortality reached 1,15O. Their
occurred the great epidemic of 1873. In
that year Memphis furnished 1000 vic
tins. New Orleans proper lost only 22J
from the disease, but the neighboring
lOWu VI SulctcpOll iOSl tcc.
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 132 towns
in Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky. There were
more than $4,000 cases, and the death
roll reached the tremendous total Of
1894.
Thousands upon thousands of citizens
| fed from Memphis and New Orleans,
but of the population that remained in
the former city-about 19,600-7O per
cent sickened and $3.50, or more than
25 per cent, died. In New Orleans the
| mortality was about the same. 1t i.
estimated that the loss to the country In
commercial way as direct result OF
the epidemic was above S1O0.000,OO0.
The epidemic of 1878 furnished heroes
whose names will live with those who
fell in the Civil War of decade and a
| half before. The North not only sent
thousands of dollars and trainloads of
| supplies to the stricken cities-whole
| trainloads of coffins, for ''send coffins''
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 emissarie.
of God. In Memphis seventeen resident
physicians and twenty-eight volunteer.
from other cities sacrificed their lives
Ten Roman Catholic priests, eleven Sis
| tiers of Charity of the same church and
| half q score Of ministers of Protestant
| denominations also were among the vol
unteer workers who died in their heroic
work.
There has been no outbreak of tn,
fever since 1878 to excite widespread
alarm until this year. In 1893 there
was scare. 1,OI6 cases prevailing Al
Brunswick, Ga, but only forty-six per
sons died. In 1897 there was another
scare, fifty-nine deaths occurring out oi
Il total of $40 cases.
Previous to the Spanish wa
Havana had been the chief infected por
from which yellow fever penetrated t.
the States. Science and the warfare OF
the stegomyia rasciata following Ameri
can occupation cleansed Havana of tn,
scourge. A Panama victim is believed
to have brought the fever to New Or
leans and started the present epidemic
there.
st. Louis and Cincinnati were anon.
the cities that suffered during the epi
demic of 1878, several deaths occurrin,
in each, although both are slightly nortl
of what now is regarded as the boundar,
of the yellow fever zone.