Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

  • Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Statement made by Dr. John Costes, to Dr. Gilpin. On the nth of August 1813, a vessel called the Fortune, whereof was master or patron, Ludovico Bosano, alias Malta, arrived at Gibraltar, from Cadiz. One of the crew thereof being ill, was sent to the CathoHc hospital, and died on the 19th of the same month, with every symptom of the yellow fever, now prevalent. A Frenchman, a native of Paris, died on the 3d of September in Government Street, near City Mill Lane, with the same symptoms as the former man, and who had been a passenger with him in the vessel above named. Between the 3d and 11th of September, died nine persons in the same neighbourliood ; and on this day I saw in the same district two cases of the fever; which I instantly reported to Dr. Gilpin, and Mr. Fraser. (Signed) JOHN COSTES.