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In his report on an outbreak of jaundice which occurred at Halifax Court House, Va., in 1857-1858, Faulkner<sup>1</sup>stated that the disease occurred in Norfolk, Va., during the War of 1812. This is the first record of its occurrence in the United States, and no further outbreak is recorded until 1839, when it appeared at Jacksonville, Ala. From 1812 to 1886 there are but eleven outbreaks recorded in the American literature, and of these nine occurred south of Mason and Dixon's line, four of them in Alabama. The remaining two occurred in Orange, N. J., in 1858, and in Montgomery County, Pa., in 1860. During this period only one outbreak is recorded in any one year, with the exception of 1860, when the disease appeared in Richmond, Va., and in Montgomery County, Pa. Beginning with the late eighties of the nineteenth century, reports become more frequent, and records of