Download or read book Yellow Fever & Public Health in the New South written by John Hubert Ellis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the public terror at the 1878 epidemic of yellow fever-- previously unknown--that spread from New Orleans to Memphis, and the public health movement that followed, mostly initiated locally by a new class of urban businessmen. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR