Typhus fever is now a rare disease, and epidemics are quite
infrequent. It has long been known under the names of
hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and
ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social
disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war. For the
past eight centuries epidemics of typhus have from time to time
been noticed, but invariably can be traced to some social
derangement.
Yellow Fever is a disease prevailing endemically in the West
Indies and certain sections of what was formerly known as the
Spanish Main. Guiteras recognizes three areas of infection:--
(1) The focal zone from which the disease is never absent,
including Havana, Vera Cruz, Rio, and the other various
Spanish-American points.
(2) The perifocal zone, or regions of periodic epidemics,
including the ports of the tropical Atlantic and Africa.
(3) The zone of accidental epidemics, between the parallels of 45
degrees north and 35 degrees south latitude.
In the seventeenth century Guadaloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and
Barbadoes suffered from epidemics of yellow fever. After the
first half of the seventeenth century the disease was prevalent
all through the West Indies.
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