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Show Record of Yellow (--ever. Yellow fever hns always been regarded re-garded as an American plague, Its earliest and greatest ravages being In tho West Indies nnd In American ports. In ISOt nnd 1814, howoer, It wns very violent nt Gibraltar, and during dur-ing the next quarter of a century there wero n number of vlrulont outbreaks In various Spanish cities. Norfolk and Portsmouth, Vn., wero ravaged In 1855; Wilmington, N. C. In 1S02, nnd Savannah, Ga., in 187G. Between 1847 and 18C8 thero weio six periods of scourge In Now Orleans, tho mortality In each enso averaging about 3.500. In 1878-70 Memphis wns almost depopulated, depop-ulated, thero being C.1C0 deaths in 1878 and 4S5 In 1870. though tho larger larg-er part of tho population hnd fled from tho city. Thero wero fever ravages during the same years In New Orleans and other gulf nnd south Atlantic ports, tho total number of deaths from the scourgo In tho United States during that year being 14,800. |