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:

Galveston News, Tuesday, June 4, 1889