YELLOW FEVER.
• Some authoritiv contend that ye1!' low fever first made its appearance among the soldiers of Columbus in San Domingo in the year 1495. Certainly nothing was known of the disease before this period. But the first authentic accoxmt we have of an eptdemic is of the one which occurred in the island of Barbatloes in 1647. Since then innumerable epidemics have ravaged the cities of North America, Mexico, Central and South America, and even Europe. It was at the time of the Napoleonic wars that the most extensive epidemics occurred. In ISOO Cadiz was visited by this scourge, and out of a population of 57,000, 48,000 persons Were attacked, S,OQO dying in a few months. One of the most extensive epidemics to visit the United States occurred in the summer of 1853. It extended throughout all the Souths era States and on the Atlantic coast as far north as Ehode Island. Again, in 187S, that country was ravaged by another wide-spread epfdemf'J. One hundred and twenty-five thousand persons were stricken, over 20,000 dying of the disease."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 274, 18 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)
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