This is mainly about Charleston but gives what caused the disease and what years were affected up here. This is an old book and when written was before the date your speaking of. Hope this can shed some light on what it was like back then. Bushy It was the yellow fever that ravaged the coastal cities, killing almost allnew-comers who had not become aquainted, thereby gaining the name Stranger's fever, that was most dreaded. All who could, fled tot he dry pinelands for the summer; trade languished, for ships could not get a clean bill of health once they visited an infected port and therefore they stayed away; fear ruled when hundreds were dying in a small community such as Charlestown. When yellow fever entered the city during the summer months, it was a tyrant that seemingly had only one enemy, i.e., frost and cool weather. A breif history of these epidemics in the city is necessary as a background for a study of the beginning of Metorological Journals. Though occurring as sporadic cases almost every year, the fever occurred severely as an epidemic again in 1703 and 1728. In the latter year the summer was uncommonly hot and dry, followed by a dreadful hurricane which flooded the city and "so quick was the putrefaction, so offensive and infectious were the corpses" that it was easy to believe that the weather was a cause of the disease. In the years 1732 and 1739 the death rate of the dread disease was rather high. In the city where the death rate of the dreaddisease was rather high. I n the city wehre the population was approximately 16,000 from eight oto twelve white persons were buried daily during the height of the disorder. Only mild attacks occurred in 1745 and 1748 and then for forty-eight years only scattered cases appeared until 1792 which opened a new era. This was only a mild epidemic and 1793 was without any cases of yellow fever. The latter year was spent in nervous dread by the citizens of Charleston because of the severity of the epidemic in Philadelphia, and though relieved when the danger was past their fears were realized the following year when a series of severe attacks began. These appeared in 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797,1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1804, and 1807. Cases of yellow fever had been known to occur as early as May (1732) and last until November, though the height was usually in August and September and, with few exceptions, those being children, the victims were strangers. Unseasoned negroes were not exempt but escaped more often than white strangers, and when attacked, had the disease in a milder form and were more generally cured. Persons from the West Indies enjoyed a similar immunity. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Sondys <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 10:45 AM Subject: [FLESCAMB] Yellow Fever in 1905 > Does anyone know any details about the Yellow Fever > epidemic in Pensacola in 1905? > -How many died? > -Was the epidemic countywide or spread throughout the south? > -Do death records in Escambia Co. in 1905 list the cause of death? > > The epidemic is listed in the "History of Pensacola" document > on the Genweb website at: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3226/Pensacola/index.html > > Mark Sondys >