The yellow fever epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. : embracing a complete list of the dead, the names of the doctors and nurses employed, names of all who contributed money or means, and the names and history of the Howards, together with other data, and lists of the dead elsewhere / by J.M. Keating.

  • Keating, John McLeod, 1830-1906
Date:
1879
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Credit: The yellow fever epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. : embracing a complete list of the dead, the names of the doctors and nurses employed, names of all who contributed money or means, and the names and history of the Howards, together with other data, and lists of the dead elsewhere / by J.M. Keating. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1851. —Mobile, Kew Orleans, moitality IG. 1852. —Savannah, Ga., mortality 19; New Orleans, commencing July and ending December, mortality 415; Washington, La., Woodville, Mis^s., New York, mortality of 1 at Marine Hospital; Charleston, S. C, commencing AiigiHt and eiuling November, mortality 310; Ft. Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor, Mt. Pleasant, S. C, on Wingaw Bay, Indianola, Texas, commencing ill September; Norfolk, Va., commencing August 7th; Portsmouth, Va., Port Royal, W. I. (population 12,611), mortality 727—1 in 17.34; St. Pierre (population 20,360), mortality 1,200, proportion to population, 1 in 17; Barba- does, W. I., troops (population 1,380), number of cases 879, mortality 173; ])roportiou to population, 1 in 7.9, proportion to ca.ses 1 in 5.08; steamer from St. Thomas to Southampton, month of November, number of cases 124, deaths 50; proportion, 1 in 2.3. 1853. —Milton, Fla., near Pensacola Bay, Pensacola, Fla., commencing July 0th; Tampa, Fla., head of Tampa Bay, commencing in September; Mo- bile, commencing July 13th and ending Nov. 1st, mortality 115 (Dr. Dowler gives an estimate of 1,072) ; Cahawba, Ala., on Alabama River, Citronelle, Ala., on Mobile & Ohio R. R., Dog River Cotton Factory, Ala., five miles from Mo- bile, commencing Aug. 8th; Demopolis, Ala., on Tombigbee River, Hollywood, Ala., on Tombigbee River, Montgomery, Ala., on Alabama River, commencing September and ending November, mortality' 35; Selma, Ala., commencing Sept. 17tli and ending Nov. 13th, mortality 32; Spring Hill, Ala., Columbia, Ark., commencing in June; Grand Lake, Ark. (on JNIississippi River), Napo- leon, Ark. (on Mississippi River), Key West, Fla., during August, mortality 112; Savannah, Ga., Alexandria, La., the disease carried oif from one-fifth to one-sixth of the population; Algiers, La. (opposite New Orleans), Bay St. Louis, La Bayou Sara (on Mississipi)i River). New Orleans, commencing May, ending December, mortality 7,970, or variously estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000. Dr. Dowler says the greatest number of deaths in New Orleans was in August, amounting to 5,189, or, by adding all the deaths, 6,235, an average exceeding 201 per day—about 9 every hour, 1 every six or seven minutes for a whole month. His total, from May 26th to October 22d, by yellow fever, is 7,782; total unnamed (mostly yellow fever), 669; ill all, 8,228, without enumerating deaths from October 22d to December 22d. He estimates the whole mortality at 8,400. Dr. Edward H. Barton, in his report to the Commission, states that the total mortality during the year, not only those certified to be such, but a large proportion of the un- known, supposed ,to be such from a want of proper records, is estimated, upon all grounds of probability, to have been 8,101 The total number of cases of yellow fever in 1853 was 29,020, which was the largest number of cases of yellow fever which ever afflicted this city (New Or- leans). But 8,101 deaths out of that great number of cases is only 27.91 per cent., or 1 in 3.58, the least mortality which had ever occurred in a great and malignant epidemic of the dread disease. Centreville, La. (on Teche River), commencing September 18th, ending Novendicr 18th; C'linton, La., commencing September 1st, ending December, mortality 75; Cloutierville,