Show record of yellow fever yellow fever has always been re carded as an american plague its earliest and greatest ravages being in he west indies and in american ports in 1804 and 1814 however it was very violent at gibraltar and dining the next quarter of a century there were a number of virulent outbreaks in various spanish cities and portsmouth va were ravaged in 1855 N in and savannah ga in 1876 between 1847 and 1868 there were six periods of scourge in new orleans the mortality in each case averaging about 3 in 1878 79 memphis was almost dekop there being deaths in 1878 and in 1879 though the larg er part of the population had fled from the city there were fever ravages during the 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 14 |