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Yellow Fever Epidemic Spreads from New Orleans

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 7.

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Yellow Fever Epidemic Spreads from New Orleans

The scourge of yellow fever has struck New Orleans. Twenty-four cases in the city July 30, with one death. Aug. 3, there were 253 cases and 71 deaths. A wealthy cotton broker flees from the scourge to Cincinnati, and is taken down with it there. St. Louis, Cairo, and other cities along the river in a panic.