THE YELLOW FEVER.
The latest reports fiom the Southern Atlantic States are up to Sept. 23rd. The yellow fever panic is said to be simply inde s cribable, all classes of people taking every means of escaping from the infected region?. Theio are 1,614 cases in Jacksonville, Florida, in a total population of 16,000, fully one-half of whom fled before the scourge fully started. Gi eat difficulty is experienced in g-ebbing medicine and nuisefe. Dreatur, Alabama, has been deserted by the whites, and the quarantine is so stiict in townn in Mississippi that no railroad trains are running. Between Harrison and \icksburg, the frightened people tore up the crack in order to compel *he train to stop. The epidemic will shut out the new crop of Florida oranges, and the Florida exchange has closed its door&. For rhe 24 hours ending at 6 o'clock p.m. on the above date there weie 133 new cases in Jacksonville and ten deaths.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 3
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159THE YELLOW FEVER. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 3
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