Yellow Fever Scourge at Santos.
Terrible Scenes,
Mail despatches received at Queenstown, from Santos, Brazil, state thab yellow fever was raging on every side, and the scenes in the city and harbour were harrowing. Men" were dropping on the streets, dying in scores in the city and aboard the British and foreign ships in the harbour. Some of the British ships had their flags at half-mast for weeks a3 man after man succumbed to the fever. Boate are being rowod about t-he harbour day and night from vessel to vessel collecting the dead, and taking them ashore for burial. Some ships had only one or two men left of their entire crews, and many of them were unable to get arway from the peab hole of tever, owing to the lack of men to form the crew.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 196, 17 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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137Yellow Fever Scourge at Santos. Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 196, 17 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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