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 1739-40     Boston Measles 1747         CT,NY,PA,SC Measles 1759         N. Amer [areas inhabited by white people] Measles 1761         N. Amer and West Indies Influenza 1772         N. America Measles 1775         N. Amer [especially hard in NE] epidemic Unknown 1775-6       Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] Influenza 1783         Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] Bilious Disorder 1788         Philadelphia and New York Measles 1793         Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and Influenza 1793         VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] Influenza 1793         Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] Yellow Fever 1793         Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] Unknown 1793         Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] Unknown 1794         Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1796-7       Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1798         Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] Yellow Fever 1803         New York Yellow Fever 1820-3       Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] "Fever" 1831-2       Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic Cholera 1832         NY City and other major cities Cholera 1837         Philadelphia Typhus 1841         Nationwide [especially severe in the south] Yellow Fever 1847         New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8       Worldwide Influenza 1848-9      North America Cholera 1850         Nationwide Yellow Fever 1850-1      North America Influenza 1852         Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] Yellow Fever 1855         Nationwide [many parts] Yellow Fever 1857-9      Worldwide [one of the greatest epidemics] Influenza 1860-1      Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73     Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans...Smallpox Baltimore, Memphis,Washington DC...Cholera A series of recurring epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever 1873-5      N. America and Europe Influenza 1878        New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever 1885         Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886         Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1918         Worldwide [high point yr] more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic (influenza) than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps,with 80% death rate in some camps.   Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: 1833         Columbus, OH 1834         New York City 1849         New York 1851         Coles Co.,IL , The Great Plains, and Missouri

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