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From: "DW" <>
Subject: Large death rates in certain years explained...
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:49:44 -0700

Hi All,

I just picked this up off another list that I'm on and thought I should pass
it along... it may help in understanding the large death rates in certain
years of our families histories...

I hope it is of interest...

Sincerely,
Deborah

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Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 5:00 AM
Subject: Epidemics (no, not another virus scare, the real ones)


> Hello everyone!
> I received this from another list and I thought it might explain some
> clusters of deaths that we sometimes run across. Enjoy! (Well, you know
what
> I mean)
> Elizabeth Marcheschi
> California
> Epidemics
>
> Year Ailment Place Extra info
> 1350 Bubonic plague WW*
> 1499 Bubonic plague UK London
> 1507 "Fever" UK* 1507-51
> 1551 Influenza UK
> 1555 Famine UK Rains brought famine & weakness
> 1556 Bubonic plague UK *1556-63 Extreme
> 1578 Bubonic plague UK
> 1586 Bubonic plague UK*Chesterfield. Harvest failed
> 1591 Acute distress UK
> 1593 Bubonic plague UK
> 1596 Famine UK* Harvests failed & epidemics
> 1603 Bubonic plague UK
> 1612 Bubonic plague UK
> 1617 Smallpox US *Native Indians
> 1623 Bad years UK 2 years
> 1625 Bubonic plague UK
> 1626 Bubonic plague UK
> 1630 Very bad year UK Many died
> 1631 Bubonic plague UK
> 1633 Smallpox US *Native Indians
> 1636 Bubonic plague UK
> 1637 Bubonic plague UK
> 1647 Yellow FeverWest Indies
> 1648 Smallpox US
> 1648 Whooping coughUS
> 1654 Bubonic plague UK
> 1657 Measles US Boston
> 1662 Smallpox US NY
> 1665 Bubonic plague UK Extreme
> 1666 Bubonic plague UK Eyam
> 1668 Yellow Fever US NY
> 1677 Smallpox US *Boston
> 1687 Measles US Boston
> 1690 Yellow Fever US NY
> 1699 Yellow Fever US SC
> 1702 Yellow Fever US *NY
> 1702 Scarlet Fever US Boston
> 1706 Yellow Fever US SC
> 1713 Measles US Boston
> 1721 Smallpox US Boston
> 1723 Influenza WW
> 1723 Famine UK *7 years poor harvests & epidemics
> 1728 Yellow Fever US SC
> 1729 Measles US Boston
> 1732 Yellow Fever US SC
> 1732 Influenza WW*
> 1735 Diphtheria/scarlet feverUS *4 yrs -New England
> 1738 Smallpox US S.Carolina
> 1739 Measles US *Boston
> 1743 Yellow Fever US *NY
> 1747 Measles US CT, NY, PA, SC
> 1759 Measles US North America
> 1761 Influenza US& West Indies
> 1763 Smallpox US*Boston
> 1772 Measles US
> 1775 Influenza WW*
> 1783 Bilious disorder US Fatal
> 1788 Measles US PA, NY
> 1789 Influenza US
> 1792 Yellow Fever US *7 yrs
> 1793 Unknown US PA
> 1793 Influenza US Vermont, Virginia
> 1802 Smallpox US Nebraska
> 1803 Yellow Fever US NY
> 1820 "Fever" US*
> 1826 Cholera WW *1826-37
> 1826 Dengue Fever US* and West Indies
> 1829 Malaria US*
> 1831 Cholera UK Started WW 1826
> 1831 Cholera US*
> 1832 Influenza US
> 1833 Cholera US Ohio
> 1834 Cholera US NY
> 1837 Typhus US PA
> 1837 Smallpox US Indians
> 1841 Yellow Fever US
> 1847 Measles US Indians
> 1847 Yellow Fever US NO
> 1847 Influenza WW*
> 1848 Cholera WW*
> 1850 Yellow Fever US
> 1850 Influenza US*
> 1850 Dengue Fever US*
> 1851 Cholera US IL
> 1852 Yellow Fever US NO
> 1853 Cholera Birmingham?This came from a UK report with the
> ?
> 1855 Yellow Fever US
> 1857 Influenza WW*
> 1860 Smallpox US* Pennsylvania
> 1861 Epidemics US* Civil war numerous infectious diseases
> 1865 Smallpox US*
> 1865 Cholera US
> 1865 Typhus US*
> 1868 Smallpox US* 7 yrs
> 1873 Influenza UK* N. America & Europe
> 1873 Cholera US
> 1878 Yellow Fever US NO
> 1885 Typhoid US PA
> 1886 Yellow Fever US FL
> 1889 Influenza WW*
> 1893 Polio US 1st known outbreak
> 1900 Plague US*
> 1901 Smallpox US*
> 1907 Polio US *9 yrs.
> 1917 Influenza WW* Worst ever
> 1931 Polio US
> 1942 Polio US 11 yrs
>
> * - means the epidemic is spread over more than one year.
> WW means world wide
>

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