YELLOW FEVER IN FLORIDA.
This southorn scourge ha 3 become epidemic in Jacksonville and other towns in the State of Florida. There were eighteen cases in the town mentioned on August 13, and new ones weredevelopingin all quarters. Heat and murkiness were the atmospheric conditions. ■ Gangs of nieh were employed in clearing the streets of garbage and old rubbish, and liming them till they looked as if snowed'under. Coal-fear 'and ;pitch-pine fires have been burning for days. Panic has driven away a large proportion of the people. The food supply is cub short, and most of the hotels and restaurants are closed. The factories are also closing up, throwing many hands but of employment; great privations ari dreaded by the unemployed. All the southern states have quarantined against Florida; but infected people manage occasionally fco evade the cordon sanitaire, and it is feared tho fever may become general in the south; ' " '
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 5
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