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From: "The Farm" <>
Subject: [NCROOTS-L] Fw: Epidemics
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:15:46 -0400

>Someone once posted this to a list I was subscribed to and I thought
someone
>else might find the information helpful.
>
>"Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol 20, No l, Fall 1993, South Bend, (IN)
>Area Genealogical Society via Julie Burnett, Sue in Arizona and Judy
Nordgren
>SMCAGS
>
>"In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared
>during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always
>had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the
>genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from
>records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the
>affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed
>below:
>
> 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 North America and West Indies Influenza
> 1772 North 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 greated 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 North 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 {Influenza
> hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic 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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