Show Record of Yellow Fever Yellow fever has always been regarded re-garded as an American plague its earliest and greatest ravages being In tho West Indies and In American ports In 1SQ4 and 1814 however It was very violent at Gibraltar and dour ing the next quarter of a century there wero a number of virulent outbreaks in various Spanish cities Norfolk and Portsmouth Va wero ravaged In 1855 Wilmington N C In 1SR2 and Savannah Ga In 1S7C Between 1817 and 1808 there were six periods of scourge In New Orleans the mortality in each case averaging about 3500 In 187879 Memphis was almost depop ulated there being 51GO deaths in 1878 and 486 in lS7n though the lang er part of the population had nod from the city There were fever ravages1 during tho same years In New Orleans and other gulf and south Atlantic ports the total number of deaths from the scourge In the United States during that year being usoo |