Show DISEASE havana has been purified under american control of the municipality and yellow fever has almost disappeared gradually that fatal disease is being driven strom our presence even away from thai giandi of the west indies was a time when the atlantic coast from new york to the tip of norida and the gulf region were fertile fields for the fever but b degrees it ijas been overcome an early as 1699 yellow fever appeared in philadelphia and new york and in 1793 in the s of august september october and november tharo were deaths in philadelphia new york in two bummer seasons lost JOO in 1797 and the following year the deaths from the lever in philadelphia were nearly and in new york baltimore had 1000 deaths in 1800 new orleans had deaths in two months in 1852 from yellow fever but not since have the northern cities been seriously afflicted with the epidemic and of lato years even the city of new orleans has been comparatively tree from the disease 1 sanitation is banishing epidemics from our cities |