( 3 ) 
1887. — Sixteen cases occurred in this year. 
1888 and 1889. — No cases are recorded. “At the end of 1889 exceptional floods were followed 
by a severe outburst of malarial fevers, and it has been contended that some of the cases that were 
then returned as malarial fever were, in reality, cases of yellow fever.” — (Colonial Surgeon’s 
Report, 1891.) 
1890. — 
No. 
Name. 
Date. 
Residence 
Lot No. 
I 
Mrs. Jenkins 
nth Tanuary ... 
130 
2 
Mr. MacIntyre ... 
20th „ 
756 
3 
Mr. Stewart 
2nd February 
929 
4 
Mr. Slorach 
1 *th 
929 
5 
Mr. Butt .. 
10th March 
927 
6 
Mr. Niven 
27th „ 
466 
7 
Paul Wilson 
1 ith April 
807 
8 
Mr. Watson 
26th May 
756 
9 
Thos. Mead 
26th June 
? 
IO 
John Jones 
9th August ... 
85 
I I 
Mary Abercrombie 
20th „ 
33 
I 2 
Appolonia Rodriguez ... 
23rd „ 
445 
13 
Bruner ... 
25th 
927 
14 
Elsingburg 
15 th September 
? 
*5 
D. R. McKinnon 
24th „ 
929 
l6 
Sister Theresa ... 
1 6th October ... 
780 
17 
Camille de Mezerville ... 
18th November 
936 
18 
Alex. Grant 
25th » 
1,066 
x 9 
Rev. Fr. Hopkins 
* 
17th December 
997 
The cases are scattered throughout the year with intervals of 10 to 40 days. The medical officer 
regarded this epidemic as an heritage of the 1886-1887 epidemic, the contamination having continued 
over. 
1891. — Six cases of yellow fever were returned in the Hospital Report, of which 3 died. 
During the period from 1886 to 1891 there can be little doubt that yellow fever had gained a 
strong hold upon Belize and had become endemic at that period. It also would have resulted in the 
creation of a very large immune population, and to the presence of a very considerable number of 
immunes in Belize at the present time must be attributed in a large measure the comparative 
smallness of the number of cases in Belize, for there can be no doubt, from the station in life of those 
who did succumb, that there must have been a very general Stegomyia infection throughout 
the town. 
The year 1892 is marked, according to the Hospital Report, by a very large number of 
malarial cases. 
From 1891 to 1905 there is no evidence that Belize was infected. 
The Epidemic of 1905. 
It seems impossible to trace with certainty the first cases of yellow fever 
this year (1905), whether at Belize, New Orleans, Livingstone or Puerto 
Cortes. It is very clear that in Belize, as well as in New Orleans and other 
places, the early cases were not recognised, and that in consequence the disease 
had gained a firm hold of the town before the danger was realised. 
In order, therefore, that the experience of Belize during 1905 may be of 
value in teaching the absolute necessity of constant vigilance, I have endeavoured 
to analyse the sickness returns from January to September in order to bring 
together all suspicious cases. From examination of the case books and other 
memoranda which the local practitioners were good enough to place before me, 
it is clear in the first place that there was a considerable amount of malaria, 
and a slight outbreak of influenza between January and May, 1905. 
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