[Yellow Fever Concert] 1878 Concert Program To Benefit Yellow Fever VictimsSingle sheet 5" x 8" Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA program from a Grand Volunteer Concert benefit for "Sufferers From Yellow Fever." 1878 was a critical year for yellow fever when scarcely a town or city in the South was unaffected. In 1878, about 20,000 people died in a widespread epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley. That year, Memphis had an unusually large amount of rain, which led to an increase in the mosquito population and the result was a