Yellow Fever at Santos
310 DEATHS DAILY. (Per s.s. Wairarapa.) Mklbouhne, September 2. The ship Erin's Isle, which arrived in Sydney last week from Bio, brings heartrending accounts of the ravages of yellow fever at Santos, where thousands of people have already died. The death* rate at one timo averaged 310 daily. Hundreds of corpses were floating in the river in all stages of decay. Business is at a standstill, and 45 vessels are lying in the Santos river without crews. The London and Brazil Bank ha 3 closed its doors, as every one of its employes has been carried off by the scourge, and the Brazilian and South American Bank had to take a similar course. The fever at Bio is abating, tho death-rate being only fire per day when the Erin's Isle left.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS18930914.2.19
Bibliographic details
Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 65, 14 September 1893, Page 2
Word Count
135Yellow Fever at Santos Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 65, 14 September 1893, Page 2
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in