Epidemics
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. America Measles: areas inhabited by
white people
1761 N. America and
West Indies Influenza
1772 N. America Measles
1775 N. America Unknown epidemic:
especially hard in NE
1775-6 Worldwide Influenza: one of the
worst epidemics
1783 Dover, DE "Extremely fatal"
bilious disorder
1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles
1793 Vermont A "putrid" fever and
Influenza
1793 Virginia Influenza: killed 500
in 5 counties in 4 weeks
1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever: one of the
worst epidemics
1793 Harrisburg, PA Many unexplained deaths
1793 Middletown, PA Many unexplained deaths
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" -
started Schuylkill River and spread
1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera: brought
by English emigrants
1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera
1833 Columbus, OH 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 America Cholera
1849 New York Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850 Alabama, New York Cholera
1850-1 North America Influenza
1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains and
Missouri Cholera
1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever: 8,000 die in
New Orleans
1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1857-9 Worldwide Influenza: one of the
greatest epidemics
1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, NY,
Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis,
Washington DC Smallpox, Cholera [A series
of recurring
epidemics of], Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet
Fever, Yellow Fever
1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza
1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last great
epidemic
1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
1918 Worldwide [high point yr] Influenza:
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.
