Yellow fever and its prevention : a manual for medical students and practitioners / by Sir Rubert W. Boyce.

  • Boyce, Sir Rubert William, 1863-1911.
Date:
1911
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    fever immediately made its appearance in epidemic form. In fact, yellow fever followed closely the trade routes, whether by road, rail, or sea, and whether along the coast, in the interior wilder districts, or up on to the mountains. Wherever newcomers settled, the disease broke out, in some cases no doubt from an imported source, but as often as not from the endemic source. Vera Cruz, being the great port, has persisted as a centre of yellow fever to modern times, the disease manifesting itself in larger or smaller epidemics, or as annual sporadic cases depending upon the number of non- immunes present in any one year, and therefore influenced by the movements of troops or settlers. In like manner, the ports of Tampico and Progresso have been, since the early part of the nineteenth century, the seats of epidemics and sporadic cases. Large epidemics have been recorded at Tampico in 1843 and in 1847. Merida, the capital of Yucatan, is still an endemic focus. In Mexico city, built at an elevation of 7450 feet, only imported cases of yellow fever have, it is stated, occurred. Vigorous anti-yellow fever operations have been undertaken in the chief towns of Mexico, notably at Vera Cruz. References For Yellow Fever in Mexico LlCEAGA (E.)—Yellow Fever in Mexico, American Health Association Annual Co?tve?ition, 1893. BOYCE (Sir R. W.)—Report upon Outbreak of Yellow Fever hi British Honduras in 1905, London, 1906. Liceaga (E.)—Yellow Fever in Mexico, Transactions of the XV. Inter- national Medical Congress, Lisbon, 1906. Augustin (G.)—History of Yellow Fever, New Orleans, 1909. Parker, Beyer, and Pothier—Report of the Working Party No. I., Yellow Fever Institute, Washington, 1903. Bolletint extraordinario del Consejo superior de Salubridad Mexico. Manuel Carmona y Valle, Lecons sur Pc'tiologie et la prophylaxie de la fiivre jaune, Mexico, 1885. Seidelin (H.)—Aetiologie des Gelben Fieber, Berliner Klin. Wochen., No. 18, 1909 ; Experiences in Yucatan, Yellow Fever: Journal of Trop. Med., November 1910.