Epidemics 1657-1918
Epidemics 1657 - 1918


YEAR ILLINESS
1657 Boston Measles
1687 Boston Measles
1690 New York, Yellow Fever
1713 Boston Measles
1729 Boston Measles
1732-3 Worldwide Influenza
1738 South Carolina Smallpox
1739 Boston Measles
1747 CT., NY., PA., S.C., Measles
1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people) Measles
1760 North American & West Indies Influenza
1772 North American Measles
1775 North American Measles
1775-6 Workdwide Influenza (One of the worst epidemics)
1783 Dover, De., Bilious Disorder (extremely fatel)
1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles
1793 Vermont, a "Putrid" Fever and Influenza
1793 Philadelphia, Yellow Fever (One of the worst epidemics)
1793 Harrisburg, Pa., Unknown (Many unexplained deaths)
1793 Middletown, Pa., Unknown (Many unexplained deaths)
1794 Virginia Influenza (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks)
1794 Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow Fever
1796-7 Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow Fever (One of the worst)
1803 New York Yellow Fever
1820-3 Nationwide Fever (Starts at Schuylkill River and spreads)
1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera (Brought by English emigrants)
1832 New York City and other major cities, Cholera
1833 Columbus, Ohio, Cholera
1834 New York City, Cholera
1837 Philadelphia, Typhus
1841 Nationwide Yellow Fever (Especially severe in the south)
1847 New Orleans, Yellow Fever
1847-8 Worldwide Influenza
1848-9 North American Cholera
1849 New York, Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850-1 North American Influenza
1851 Coles Co, Ill., The great Plains and Missouri, Cholera
1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever (New Orleans, 8000 die in summer)
1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1857-9 Worldwide Influenza (One of the largerst epidemics)
1860-1 Pennsylvania, Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, N. Y., Boston, New Orleans, Smallpox,
Baltimore, Memphis, Washington D.C., Cholera and a series of recurring epidemics of Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever
1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever ( Last greqt Epidemic)
1885 Plymouth, Pa., Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, Florida, Yellow Fever
1918 Influenza (Worldwide more people were hospitalized in WW1 from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% dewath rate in some camps.
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