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Show Yellow fevkji is first noticed as a plague in the history of Barbadoes, ' where it is mentioned as appearing in September of 1617, and before the end of iho month "the living were scarcely able to bury the dead." In 1793 6,000 men of tho garrison of - Port Royal, died from it in the course of three months. In 1804 the south of Europe was Bevcrefy nfllicted vfith the disease, thousands of people, in coast citieB of Spain perishing. The j disease was unprecedentedly severe in Gibraltar, where oui of a civil population of 1-1,000 only twenty-eight twenty-eight escaped attack. ! |