The years 1819-31 were noted for outbreaks of fever in Demerara. These were the years when every new arrival as a matter of course got fever within a few weeks. In 1820, 1821 and 1825 yellow fever is specially mentioned. The danger continued through the 1830s. In 1840 the Secretary of State for War enquired why, in a few months, 69 per cent of all the white troops in the garrison of British Guiana had died from fever [Health, Progress and Administration in the West Indies, Sir Rubert Boyce FRS, pub John Murray, London, 1910] John ----- Original Message ----- From: "espencer" <espencer@magma.ca> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:08 PM Subject: Disease / Epidemics about 1817-1818