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===[[1882]]===
 
===[[1882]]===
On September 30, 1882, before the epidemic had concluded, the ''New York Times'' reported 783 cases of yellow fever in Pensacola, including 78 deaths.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E2DF1F3EE433A25752C0A9669D94639FD7CF "The Yellow Fever Scourge; Rapid Spread of the Disease in Pensacola and Need of Aid"] The New York Times, September 30, 1882</ref> The New York Times also reported that "the state of Alabama has quarantined against Pensacola. Unless some arrangement can be made to avert the disaster, all trains will be withdrawn, and the city will be cut off from mails and supplies."<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E6DA1E3EE433A25751C0A96F9C94639FD7CF "Yellow Fever's Victims; A Scourge in the South -- A Quarantine Against Pensacola"] The New York Times, September 2, 1882</ref>
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On September 30, 1882, before the epidemic had concluded, the ''New York Times'' reported reported 783 cases of yellow fever in Pensacola, including 78 deaths.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E2DF1F3EE433A25752C0A9669D94639FD7CF "The Yellow Fever Scourge; Rapid Spread of the Disease in Pensacola and Need of Aid"] The New York Times, September 30, 1882</ref> The New York Times also reported that "the state of Alabama has quarantined against Pensacola. Unless some arrangement can be made to avert the disaster, all trains will be withdrawn, and the city will be cut off from mails and supplies."<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E6DA1E3EE433A25751C0A96F9C94639FD7CF "Yellow Fever's Victims; A Scourge in the South -- A Quarantine Against Pensacola"] The New York Times, September 2, 1882</ref>
  
 
In a contemporaneous account of the 1882 epidemic, [[R. B. S. Hargis]], a physician who treated numerous yellow fever cases in Pensacola, reported that at the Pensacola Navy yard and in the adjacent villages of [[Warrington]] and [[Woolsey]], with a total population of between 1300 and 1400, there were 167 cases of yellow fever and 33 deaths.
 
In a contemporaneous account of the 1882 epidemic, [[R. B. S. Hargis]], a physician who treated numerous yellow fever cases in Pensacola, reported that at the Pensacola Navy yard and in the adjacent villages of [[Warrington]] and [[Woolsey]], with a total population of between 1300 and 1400, there were 167 cases of yellow fever and 33 deaths.

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