Rigau-Pérez J G
Division of Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Bol Asoc Med P R. 1991 Feb;83(2):58-60.
At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, yellow fever epidemics occurred frequently in America and Europe, in the vicinity of the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean coasts. There is only brief information available on the 1804-5 epidemic in San Juan, but it shows that mortality in the city was inordinate. Nevertheless, the minutes of the meetings of the Municipal Assembly in this period make no mention of the epidemic, and allude to it only in veiled fashion. In spite of the accumulation of individual tragedies (for example, it is likely that the two daughters of governor Ramón de Castro were among the victims), the documents show little evidence of community reaction to the epidemic, which apparently ceased in mid-1805.
在18世纪末和19世纪初，黄热病疫情频繁发生在美国、欧洲以及地中海、大西洋和加勒比海沿岸附近地区。关于1804年至1805年圣胡安的疫情，仅有简短的信息，但这表明该市的死亡率极高。然而，这一时期市议会会议记录并未提及该疫情，只是隐晦地有所暗示。尽管有诸多个人悲剧发生（例如，总督拉蒙·德·卡斯特罗的两个女儿很可能是受害者之一），但文件显示几乎没有社区对疫情反应的证据，疫情显然在1805年年中结束。
