. Handbook of medical entomology. Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease; Medical parasitology. Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever 197 There have been many noted outbreaks in the United States. Boston suffered from it in 1691 and again in 1693; New York in 1668 and as late as 1856; Baltimore in iSig. In 1793 occurred the great epidemic in Philadelphia, with a death rate of one in ten of the population. In the past century it was present almost every year in some locality of our Southern States, New Orleans being the greatest siofferer. In the latter city there were 7848 deaths from the disease
. Handbook of medical entomology. Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease; Medical parasitology. Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever 197 There have been many noted outbreaks in the United States. Boston suffered from it in 1691 and again in 1693; New York in 1668 and as late as 1856; Baltimore in iSig. In 1793 occurred the great epidemic in Philadelphia, with a death rate of one in ten of the population. In the past century it was present almost every year in some locality of our Southern States, New Orleans being the greatest siofferer. In the latter city there were 7848 deaths from the disease in 1853, 4854 in 1858, and 4046 in 1878. The last notable outbreak. 130. Anopheles quadrimaculatus, male and female, (xaK). After Howard. was in 1905. Reed and Carroll (1901) estimated that during the period from 1793 to 1900 there had not been less than 500,000 cases in the United States. As in the case of the plague, the most stringent methods of con- trol proved ineffective and helplessness, almost hopelessness marked the great epidemics. A vivid picture of conditions is that given by Mathew Gary, 1793 (quoted by Kelly, 1906) in "A Short Account of the Malignant Fever Lately Prevalent in ; "The consternation of the people of Philadelphia at this period was carried beyond all bounds. Dismay and affright were visible. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Riley, William A. (William Albert), b. 1876; Johanssen, Oskar Augustus, 1870-. Ithaca, N. Y. , The Comstock Publishing Company
Size: 3068px × 815px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectinsectp, bookyear1915
