Yellow Fever Scare Along Southern Pacific Line Dismissed
Fears that yellow fever might spread from Texas into Arizona and California via the Southern Pacific railroad were quietly waved off by the state board of health — a small but telling episode in the era's anxious railroad-borne epidemic panics.
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Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Page 2
1 min readThe scare in and about Colton that yellow fever was likely to reach this part of the country from Texas, over the Southern Pacific road, does not seem to have been shared to any great extent by the state board of health, for that body has decided that there is no danger and that there is no necessity for maintaining a quarantine on the line of the road in Arizona.
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