YELLOW FEVER IN FLORIDA.
Thit> .~ou them bcoiuge ha? become epidemic in Jaeknomille and other towns in the State ot Fiouda. There «cie eighteen cases in the town mentioned on August 13, and new one* w erede\ elopingin all quarters. H>at and murkinesb were the atmospheric conditions. (Jung-s of men weic employed in cicaiirg the .sheets of gai bage and old rubbish, and liming them till they looked ab if snowed under. Coal-tar and pitch-pine iiies ha\e been burning loi dajs. Panic has drhenawaya large pioportion of the people. The food supply is cut shor L , and most ot Ihe hotelb and restaurants aie clo^e '. The factories aie also closing uj), tlnowing many hands, out of employment ; gieat pi nations aie dreaded by the unemplo}ed. All the southern &tate 6 ha^e quaiantined against Florida ; but infected people manage occasionally to evade the cordon sanitaire, and it i.s feared the fever may become general in the south.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 4
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156YELLOW FEVER IN FLORIDA. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 4
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