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Epidemics

A Complete Record

Although Galveston has not been visited by a yellow fever epidemic since 1867 - twenty-two years ago - it was not at all uncommon during the early history of the city. The first epidemic took place in 1839, and some twenty cases occurred before the physicians were able to recognize that disease. There is not space in this article to more than give the dates of the different epidemics, the estimated population of the city, and the number of deaths resulting from the disease which will be found tabulated below:

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Year		Date			Population		Deaths
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1839		Sept. 20		1,000			250
1844		July 5			3,500			400
1847		Oct. 1			4,800			200	
1853		Aug. 9			6,000			535
1854		Aug. 4			7,000			404	
1858		Aug. 28			9,000			378
1859		Sept. 17		9,500			182	
1864		Sept. 1			5,000			259	
1867		July 28			18,000			1150


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Ben C. Stuart, in The City's Story,

Galveston News, Tuesday, June 4, 1889

Volume 7 Splinters page 23 transcribed in altered form for the web by Johnnie Welborn, Jr.