The Major having been our chief commissary and a man with whom we were in daily contact, this tragedy profoundly affected the military community. The next day we took husband and wife out to the little military cemetery at Camp Columbia where the American troops were cantoned, some five miles from Havana, and laid them to rest in the presence of a large concourse, military and civil. While there, a member of the Commanding General’s staff, Captain Page, had a chill, returned home sick, developed a severe case of yellow fever and died within a week. This was looked upon by all the community as evidence that the disease had been contracted by contagion from the Captain’s having attended the funeral. From the table on page 71 it will be seen that for ten years preceding our occupation of Havana there had been an average of more than five hundred deaths per year from this disease in the city; that in 1900, two years after we had taken possession of the city there were 310 deaths from yellow fever. A further search of the mortality statistics shows that yellow fever had existed in Havana continuously from the year 1762. This was the year during which Havana was besieged and captured by the English forces. The troops were largely made up of colonials from the North American colonies, and they suffered severely from yellow fever. For two hundred years before this time Havana had been subject to epidemics of yellow fever, but from 1762 up to the year 1901, there was probably not a single day when Havana did not have a case of this disease within its bounds. DEATHS FROM YELLOW FEVER IN THE CITY OF HAVANA