Saw this posted and thought this might be good to know.
BJ
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 D.C
> 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
>
>
> Sometimes, if you can look through your family tree
> > and note that a lot of people (especially children and
> > the elderly) died in the same year within a short time
> > of each other, and the year is listed as one for an
> > epidemic, they may have died from the epidemic.
> >
> > V....
> >
> > Year Ailment Place Extra info
> > 1350Bubonic plagueWW*
> > 1499Bubonic plagueUKLondon
> > 1507"Fever"UK*1507-51
> > 1551InfluenzaUK
> > 1555FamineUKRains brought famine & weakness
> > 1556Bubonic plagueUK*1556-63 Extreme
> > 1578Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1586Bubonic plagueUK*Chesterfield. Harvest failed
> > 1591Acute distressUK
> > 1593Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1596FamineUK*Harvests failed & epidemics
> > 1603Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1612Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1617SmallpoxUS*Native Indians
> > 1623Bad yearsUK2 years
> > 1625Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1626Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1630Very bad yearUKMany died
> > 1631Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1633SmallpoxUS*Native Indians
> > 1636Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1637Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1647Yellow FeverWest Indies
> > 1648SmallpoxUS
> > 1648Whooping coughUS
> > 1654Bubonic plagueUK
> > 1657MeaslesUSBoston
> > 1662SmallpoxUSNY
> > 1665Bubonic plagueUKExtreme
> > 1666Bubonic plagueUKEyam
> > 1668Yellow FeverUSNY
> > 1677SmallpoxUS*Boston
> > 1687MeaslesUSBoston
> > 1690Yellow FeverUSNY
> > 1699Yellow FeverUSSC
> >
> > 1702Yellow FeverUS*NY
> > 1702Scarlet FeverUSBoston
> > 1706Yellow FeverUSSC
> > 1713MeaslesUSBoston
> > 1721SmallpoxUSBoston
> > 1723InfluenzaWW
> > 1723FamineUK*7 years poor harvests & epidemics
> > 1728Yellow FeverUSSC
> > 1729MeaslesUSBoston
> > 1732Yellow FeverUSSC
> > 1732InfluenzaWW*
> > 1735Diphtheria/scarlet feverUS*4 yrs -New England
> > 1738SmallpoxUSS.Carolina
> > 1739MeaslesUS*Boston
> > 1743Yellow FeverUS*NY
> > 1747MeaslesUSCT, NY, PA, SC
> > 1759MeaslesUSNorth America
> > 1761InfluenzaUS& West Indies
> > 1763SmallpoxUS*Boston
> > 1772MeaslesUS
> > 1775InfluenzaWW*
> > 1783Bilious disorderUSFatal
> > 1788MeaslesUSPA, NY
> > 1789InfluenzaUS
> > 1792Yellow FeverUS*7 yrs
> > 1793UnknownUSPA
> > 1793InfluenzaUSVermont, Virginia
> >
> > 1802SmallpoxUSNebraska
> > 1803Yellow FeverUSNY
> > 1820"Fever"US*
> > 1826CholeraWW*1826-37
> > 1826Dengue FeverUS* and West Indies
> > 1829MalariaUS*
> > 1831CholeraUKStarted WW 1826
> > 1831CholeraUS*
> > 1832InfluenzaUS
> > 1833CholeraUSOhio
> > 1834CholeraUSNY
> > 1837TyphusUSPA
> > 1837SmallpoxUSIndians
> > 1841Yellow FeverUS
> > 1847MeaslesUSIndians
> > 1847Yellow FeverUSNO
> > 1847InfluenzaWW*
> > 1848CholeraWW*
> > 1850Yellow FeverUS
> > 1850InfluenzaUS*
> > 1850Dengue FeverUS*
> > 1851CholeraUSIL
> > 1852Yellow FeverUSNO
> > 1853CholeraBirmingham?This came from a UK report with the ?
> > 1855Yellow FeverUS
> > 1857InfluenzaWW*
> > 1860SmallpoxUS*Pennsylvania
> > 1861EpidemicsUS*Civil war numerous infectious diseases
> > 1865SmallpoxUS*
> > 1865CholeraUS
> > 1865TyphusUS*
> > 1868SmallpoxUS*7 yrs
> > 1873InfluenzaUK*N. America & Europe
> > 1873CholeraUS
> > 1878Yellow FeverUSNO
> > 1885TyphoidUSPA
> > 1886Yellow FeverUSFL
> > 1889InfluenzaWW*
> > 1893PolioUS1st known outbreak
> >
> > 1900PlagueUS*
> > 1901SmallpoxUS*
> > 1907PolioUS*9 yrs.
> > 1917SpanishInfluenzaWWIWorst ever
> > 1931PolioUS
> > 1942PolioUS11 yrs
> > 1950'sPolio
> > >
> > >* - means the epidemic is spread over more than one year.
> >
>
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