Tableau of the yellow fever of 1853 : with topographical, chronological, and historical sketches of the epidemics of New Orleans since their origin in 1796, illustrative of the quarantine question / by Bennet Dowler.

  • Bennet Dowler
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1854
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Credit: Tableau of the yellow fever of 1853 : with topographical, chronological, and historical sketches of the epidemics of New Orleans since their origin in 1796, illustrative of the quarantine question / by Bennet Dowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Charleston, 200 to 300 deaths. Prevailed in Winchester, Virginia. Vera Cruz: total mortality 1,310. Yellow fever prevailed here, also in the West Indies ; in Havana 4,766 died. Leghorn: 6,000 left for Pisa, as did the French army, taking 180 yellow fever 1804. cases with them; no propagation of the diseases at Pisa. (Quar. Rep.) Malaga, in Spain, out of 110,000 only 7,000 escaped attacks, and 26,000 died of this disease in four weeks. A more reliable statement (that of Arejula, cited Rep. Quar.) gives the population, in July, exclusive of the troops and prisoners, at 36,008 ; of these 4,548 fled, 18,787 sickened, and 11,486 died. Carthagena: out of 32,000 there died 14,940. At Gibraltar, in a few weeks, beginning with August, out of a population of 15,000, no less than 5,733 fell victims, including civilians 4,864, military 869, that is, nearly two out of five. [Subsequent epidemics prevailed on this rock, as in 1813- 14, 1828. During the latter year, from Angust to the 14th of Januaxy, 1,677 ex- pired on this rock from yellow fever.] Many cities of Spain, including Cadiz, were desolated. The population of Spain diminished one million! The official report of deaths from yellow fever amounted to 124,200 for the year. It is remarkable that during the rigid quarantine which prevailed about the 1804. beginning of the present century in Spain, yellow fever raged more, and caused a mortality incomparably greater than was ever known before or since, in so much that various authorities might be produced in which the diminution of population in that kingdom for a single year has been estimated, as above, at one million, owing chiefly to the ravages of this disease. As illustrative of the supremacy of the doctrine of contagion, it may be proper 1805. to mention that Carlos, King of Spain, by proclamation, conferred on Don Cabanel- las and his two children, an annuity of twelve hundred dollars, making Don Cabanellas physician to the royal household, bestowing other privileges on him for having slept one night with his children in the bed whereon yellow fever victims had died in the Lazaretto. A number of galley convicts, in chains, who voluntarily accompanied the Don, for the night, had one year's punishment remitted from their penalties. The party consisted of fifty persons, who suffered no harm. (Med. Rep. x.) Great was the astonishment of His Most Catholic Majesty and his doctors. New York: 302deaths; 116 having been natives. (Med. Rep. x.) 1805. Providence, R. I.: 30 cases; 10 deaths. (lb.) Philadelphia: 300 to 400 deaths. (Rush.) New Haven, Ct., Gloucester county, N. J., Chester county, Pa, (lb.) Havana: H. Hill, American Consul at Havana, reported to the United States Department of State the names of 86 out of 100 American seamen dying in that city, all but one, of yellow fever. (Med. Rep. x.) St. Anne's Barrack's, Barbadoes : of 278 men recently arrived from England, 70 died in twenty-three days, ending August 20th. (Bancroft.) Quebec, near the 47th parallel of North latitude, founded (more than a century Quebec, before New Orleans) upon Silurian rocks, which rise abruptly more than three hun- dred feet above the tide which washes its base, about 400 miles from sea, was for the first and last time invaded by the yellow fever, in the middle of August; but, September setting in very cold, the disease was not of long duration, though it was nearly as severe as that of the West Indies in malignity, especially among 1805.