The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-03


poets from seeking entrance to the
city surreptitiously.
The mortality in New Orleans in
the years of the greatest yellow fever
pestilence from 1s47 to 1873 was;
Year Deaths. !
1S47 .................... .2,259
1853 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1870
1854 ................... .2,423
1855 ..........,......... .2,670
: 1858 ...,............. $3.50
: 1867 ........,............ .3,093
1878 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .4600
: Yellow fever was first recognized
| definitely in the West indies, and
since 1851 it has been epidemic there
, In the latter part of the eighteenth
and the first part of the nineteenth
centuries the disease created havoc
: along the whole Atlantic coast of the
: United States. spreading to seaports
: as far north as Maine, and into the
/ cities of Canada. In 1898 the city of
, Philadelphia, then having a popula-
d tion of 10000. was stricken, and 1000
s persons-10 per cent of the population
S died
0 Four years later Philadelphia suf-
fered another visitation, with a death
a loss Of 1900 and in the year follow
s ing 3,645 deaths from the fever occur
red@
r In 1898 New York also was attacked
| by the epidemic, 20S0 persons dying
( while oBston gave 200 victims to the
II Jfcnunn i,, fha Nv 1000
e Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Will
s mington and Charleston suffered ex-
d tensvely from the spread of the fever
d along the coast, but since that time
IS epidemics have been confined more
le nearly to the southern states. New
10 York, however, has never been Inn
TX mune.
$. In 1853 there was a widespread cpl
le demic, taking in Florida, Alabama
le Louis ana Mississippi, Arkansas ant
e. Texts. In 1867 there was another epi
~. demic, more limited in area, but par
p- ticularly virulent in Galveston, Tex
ne as. where the mortality reached l,150
rt Then occurred the great epidemic D
W 1873. In that year Memphis furnish
- VI -tVtu ffttilno. lNtM oiltdHS DibV
or lest only 225 from the disease, btl
the neghboring town OF Shrevepor
rs. lost 750.
ne Then came the most terrible year 0
he all - 1878 year whose mentor
is causes a shudder throughout the land
re and whose numerals are synonymou
nd with death in the cities Of Memphi
mt and New Orleans.
ef The fever invaded 1872 towns /
re Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama. Mis-
tie s'ssippi and Kentucky There wer
re more than $4,000 cases, and the deaf
al roll reached the tremendous total {
10 1884.
er Thousands unon thousands of cir
zens fed from Memphis and New o.
leans, but Of the population that r.
NAMED in the former city-about 10
600-or 70 per cent, s sckened. and s
l50, or more than 25 per cent, diet
In New Orleans the mortality wa
at about the same. II is estimated the
MI the loss to the country in CONNIE
IN cial way as a direct result of the ep
w demic was above $10000o.001.
The epidemic Of 1878 furnishe
heroes whose names will live wit
~ those who fell in the Civil War Of
EI decade and half before. The Mort
~ NOT only sent thousands of dollar
and train loads Of supplies TO tn
stricken cities-whole train loads I
coffins, for Send coffins" was tn
ed cry from the south-but physician
err nurses, ministers, priests and other
on volunteered by the hundred with the
gn. services.
fly Death spared none After fightir
nut valiantly for weeks the epidemic /
vas vaded the ranks Of the nurses ar
her doctors and those who came as ii
her emissaries Of God In Memphis
ce resident physicians and % voluntae
sed from other cities sacrificed their live
!, Ten Roman Catholic priests, II 81
an ters Of Charity of the same churc
sis half score Of ministers of Prote
,dy tant denominations, also were amor
ale the volunteer workers who died
ion their heroic work.
,uc. There has been no outbreak OF Il
e,' fever since 1878 to excite widesprel
alarm until this year, In 1898 the
all was scare, orc cases prevailing
of Brunswick. ga. but only as perio
the died In 1897 there was, another scai
on 50 deaths occurring cut Of total
the $40 cases
,on Previous 10 the Spanish-Americ
war Havana had been the chief
yes fected port from which yellow few
wn penetrated to the states. Science a
No. the warfare on the stegomyia fascia
rty. following American occupation clear
ire. cd Havana OF the scourge. Panar
ma victim Is believed to hava brought I
ali fever 10 New Orleans and started /
II present epidemic there.