Show YELLOW FEVERS DECLINE Some of the southern cities are very much alarmed over a threatened outbreak out-break of the yellow feer They are taking the utmost precautions to prevent pre-vent its spread carefully disinfecting diJigently cleaning up and enforcing the strictest kind of a quarantine against travelers In fact trains are I not allowed to unload passengers at all ili one or two Dlaces Too much care cannot De taken It I is a dangerous disease Medical science and the diligence and care Inspired by dread have narrowed the field of its ravages and reduced its fury to a great extent But it Is still an awful plague when It obtains a little headway I New York had an epidemic of yellow ftver about a century ago in which I 2100 lives were lost out of a total population pop-ulation of 55000 It has had more recent I re-cent experiences with the same disease I Philadelphia has sufferell similar vlsi tations with great fatalities But of late we only think of it as peculiar to warm climates and swamp lands Th I panic fright which used to seize people upon the bare announcement of a case I of yellow fever has disappeared and the cause for alarm has also vanished to a great extent in the light of sanitary sani-tary science and achievement There is something in the history of yellow fever during a century of varied experience with it that encourages one to believe that it will within a com I paratively short time become extinct in I this country The very fact that the cities mentioned the scenes Of its ear her ravages are considered absolutely exempt causes one to hope for the same consummation elsewhere and in I other cities But the area has been gradually increased I creased by just such care and precautions precau-tions as the people of Memphis and I other river cities are taking this year |