Years Of Disease

 

 

 

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 DC ~ 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

 

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