Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — YELLOW FEVER SPREADING. [ARTICLE]

YELLOW FEVER SPREADING.

Yellow fever is spreading throughput Florida. Every attempt is being made at Jacksonville, and elsewhere, to check the epidemic, and the exodus from the affected districts includes almost everybody with funds enough « to pay for transportation. Immense fires have been kept burning, coal tar bfcing freely burned. The air is full of smoke, coal tar fumes and the combined .horrible odor of assafeotida, chloride of lime., sulphur, etc. The exodus has caused a scarcity of money. Provisions, also, it is feared,will run short. • Vegetables are. growing scarce, as there seems no way to market them. Altogether there is promise of much suffering among the poor people unless relief is' afforded. The mildness of the disease alone contributes to the quietness of The Situation. _