Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... REVISED EDITION, 1888 REPORT ON THE Epidemic of Yellow Fever ("La Maladie du Diable") IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, DURING THE MONTHS OF September, (r)ct&bev anif Ltsxtembev, .1876. BY DR. LOUIS A. FALLIGANT. Like the unharmed veterans of a desperate conflict, the survivors of a plague, such as that which visited our fair city, should first give thanks to Almighty God for their preservation through such a prolonged and fatal scourge, and then furnish the world the benefit of their experience, wherefrom to glean lessons of prudence by which to ameliorate future dangers and future sufferings. In this spirit I avail myself of the opportunity to place before my brethren of the medical schools such facts as I have accumulated from superabundant observations, and to arrange them with such analytic skill and amend them with such practical suggestions as have occurred to myself during their exhibition. The summer of 1876 found the city of Savannah in a condition widely different from that of many previous years, both in a hygienic and thermometrical sense. Some years since, a system of underground sewerage was projected and constructed through the most central and densely populated sections of the city, having its outlets at the surface on the eastern and western declivities of the hill on which the city is bnilt. The original purpose of this sewerage was to drain off the water from the streets and bath-rooms attached to private residences. The soil of the city is of a porous, sandy nature, readily absorbing fluids; and these sewers, intended, as I before stated, for surface drainage especially, were constructed at a depth above the natural percolative waterlevel of the adjacent and subjacent soil, so that much of the fluids passing along them...
