Richard Ford’s visit to Gibraltar, 1845
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Richard Ford’s visit to Gibraltar, 1845
We continue with Ford’s book as he describes Gibraltar’s Yellow Fever epidemics:
The Gibraltar fever, about which doctors have disagreed so much, the patients dying in the meanwhile, como chinches, is most probably endemic: it is fed by want of circulation of air and offensive sewers at low tide. It is called into fatal activity by some autumnal atmospherical peculiarity. The quarantine regulations, especially as regards ships coming from the Havana and Alexandria, are severe: they are under the control of the captain of the port. There is an excellent civil hospital here, arranged in 1815 by Gen. Don. The Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Jews have their wards separate, like their creeds.
Image: 18th Century Plan of Gibraltar showing location of Hospital of San Juan de Dios
Published: July 08, 2020
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