|
In Sickness And In
Health
|
Epidemics and When they Happened
| 1657 |
Boston |
Measles |
| 1687 |
Boston |
Measles |
| 1690 |
New York |
Yellow Fever |
 |
| 1713 |
Boston |
Measles |
| 1729 |
Boston |
Measles |
| 1732-33 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
| 1738 |
South Carolina |
Smallpox |
| 1739-40 |
Boston |
Measles |
| 1747 |
Conn., NY, PA & SC |
Measles |
| 1759 |
North America |
Influenza |
| 1761 |
North America & West Indies |
Influenza |
| 1772 |
North America |
Measles |
| 1775 |
New England |
unknown Epidemic |
| 1775-76 |
Worldwide |
Influenza
(very bad) |
| 1788 |
Philadelphia and NY |
Measles |
| 1793 |
Vermont |
Influenza and a "putrid fever" |
| 1794 |
Philadelphia |
Yellow Fever |
| 1796-97 |
Philadelphia |
Yellow Fever |
| 1798 |
Philadelphia |
Yellow Fever |
|
| 1803 |
New York |
Yellow Fever |
| 1820-23 |
Nationwide |
"fever" |
| 1831-32 |
Nationwide |
Asiatic Cholera |
| 1832 |
New York
& other major cities |
Cholera |
| 1833 |
Columbus, OH |
Cholera |
| 1834 |
New York City |
Cholera |
| 1837 |
Philadelphia |
Typhus |
| 1841 |
Nationwide
(especially severe in South) |
Yellow fever |
| 1847 |
New Orleans |
Yellow fever |
| 1847-48 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
| 1848-49 |
North America |
Cholera |
| 1849 |
New York |
Cholera |
| 1850 |
Nationwide |
Yellow Fever |
| 1850-51 |
North America |
Influenza |
| 1851 |
Coles County, IL |
Cholera |
| 1851 |
The Great Plains States |
Cholera |
| 1851 |
Missouri |
Cholera |
| 1852 |
Nationwide
(New Orleans
8,000 die in summer) |
Yellow fever |
| 1855 |
Nationwide |
Yellow fever |
| 1857-59 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
| 1860-61 |
Pennsylvania |
Smallpox |
| 1865-73 |
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis
& Washington DC |
A series of reoccuring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid,
Scarlet fever & Yellow Fever |
| 1873-75 |
North America & Europe |
Influenza |
| 1878 |
New Orleans |
Yellow Fever |
| 1885 |
Plymouth, PA |
Typhoid |
| 1886 |
Jacksonville, FL |
Yellow Fever |
|
|
| 1918 |
Worldwide
More people hospitalized in World War I for Influenza than wounds.
US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some
camps. |
Influenza |
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