DRINKERS AND YELLOW-FEVER

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 22, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 28.

DRINKERS AND YELLOW-FEVER.

MAYOR ARCHIBALD, of Jacksonville, Florida, speaking recently of the ravages of yellow fever in that city, said:—

It strikes persons of alcoholic habits fatally. The fever is of a very mild form. The mortality is only about fifteen per cent., and taking out the deaths of men addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages, the mortality would not exceed five per cent. Two-thirds of the fatality is due to the fact that persons have been accustomed to the use of strong drink before they are attacked by the fever, and in every such case the patient invariably dies, and without reaction. It is a frequent remark on the Jacksonville streets that yellow fever is the best temperance lecture the city ever had.