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From: Phyllis Campbell< >
Subject: [ILGALLAT] Fw: Epidemics (fwd)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:36:59 GMT


Found this on another list, might be useful if ancestors died in these
places/years:

Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease


1657 / Boston / Measles

1687 / Boston / Measles

1690 / New York / Yellow Fever

1713 / Boston / Measles

1729 / Boston / Measles

1732-1733 / Worldwide / Influenza

1738 / South Carolina / Smallpox

1739-1740 / Boston / Measles

1747 / Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina / Smallpox

1759 / North America / Measles

1761 / North America and West Indies / Influenza

1772 / North America / Measles

1775 / North America (especially in North East) / Unknown

1775-1776 / Worldwide / Influenza

1783 / Dover, Delaware (was extremely fatal) / Bilious Disorder

1788 / Philadelphia and New York / Measles

1793 / Vermont / (a "putrid" fever) and Influenza

1793 / Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks) / Influenza

1793 / Philadelphia / Yellow Fever

1793 / Harrisburg, PA (many unexplained deaths) / Unknown

1793 / Middletown, Pennsylvania (many mysterious deaths) / Unknown

1794 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever

1796-1797 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever

1798 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the worst) / Yellow Fever

1803 / New York / Yellow Fever

1820-1823 / Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River & spread) / "Fever"

1831-1832 / Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) / Asiatic
Cholera

1832 / New York and other major cities / Cholera

1833 / Columbus, Ohio / Cholera

1833-34 / Kentucky / Cholera

1834 / New York City, New York / Cholera

1837 / Philadelphia / Typhus

1841 / Nationwide (especially severe in the South) / Yellow Fever

1847 / New Orleans / Yellow Fever

1847-1848 / Worldwide / Influenza

1848-1849 / North America / Cholera

1849 / New York / Cholera

1850 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever

1850-1851 / North America / Influenza

1851 / Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri / Cholera

1852 / Nationwide (New Orleans 8,000 died that summer) / Yellow Fever

1855 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever

1857-1859 / Worldwide (one of the largest epidemics) / Influenza

1860-1861 / Pennsylvania / Smallpox

1865-1873 / Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Memphis, Washington DC / A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox,
Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Influenza

1873-1875 / North America & Europe / Influenza

1878 / New Orleans (last great epidemic) / Yellow Fever

1885 / Plymouth, Pennsylvania / Typhoid

1886 / Jacksonville, Florida / Yellow Fever

1918 / Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in WWI
from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death
camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. / Influenza or Spanish Flu

Al Dawson, Berea, Ohio - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973.
My Webpage: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/
Surnames include ("Mary and John" passengers) GRANT, GILLETT,
WOLCOTT, PHELPS, GRISWOLD, HOLCOMBE, FORD, COOK, CHARD
("Mayflower") FRANCIS COOKE, STEPHEN HOPKINS, JOHN ALDEN
PRISCILLA MULLINS, THOMAS ROGERS and WILLIAM BRADFORD
Al is a daily pilgrim to http://www.thehungersite.com/ - every click helps :)
AND Proud member IBSSG- see http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blkshee

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