This listing was given me in a forwarded email in early 1999. I thought it might be useful to others in their search, so included it on this site. This will show where in the Colonies and eventual States certain epidemics occurred and when.
YEAR | WHERE | DISEASE | NOTES |
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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 | Measles | In areas inhabited by white people |
1761 | North America & West Indies | Influenza | __ |
1771 | North America | unknown | Especially hard in New England |
1775-76 | Worldwide | Influenza | One of worst flu epidemics |
1788 | Philadelphia & NY | Measles | __ |
1793 | Vermont | Influenza and a “putrid fever” | __ |
1793 | Virginia | Influenza | Killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks |
1793 | Philadelphia | Yellow Fever | One of the worst |
1783* | Delaware (Dover) | “extremely fatal” bilious disorder | __ |
1793 | Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) | unknown | Many unexplained deaths |
1794 | Philadelphia | Yellow Fever | __ |
1796-97 | Philadelphia | Yellow Fever | __ |
1798 | Philadelphia | Yellow Fever | One of worst |
1803 | New York | Yellow Fever | __ |
1820-23 | Nationwide | “fever” | Starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads |
1831-32 | Nationwide | Asiatic Cholera | Brought by English emigrants |
1832 | New York & other major cities | Cholera | __ |
1837 | Philadelphia | Typhus | __ |
1841 | Nationwide | Yellow Fever | Especially severe in South |
1847 | New Orleans | Yellow Fever | __ |
1847-48 | Worldwide | Influenza | __ |
1848-49 | North America | Cholera | __ |
1850 | Nationwide | Yellow Fever | __ |
1850-51 | North America | Influenza | __ |
1852 | Nationwide | Yellow Fever | (New Orleans 8,000 die in summer) |
1855 | Nationwide (many parts) | Yellow Fever | __ |
1857-59 | Worldwide | Influenza | One of disease’s greatest epidemics |
1860-61 | Pennsylvania | Smallpox | __ |
1865-73 | Philadelphia; NY; Boston; New Orleans; Baltimore; Memphis; & Washington, DC |
Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, & Yellow Fever | A series of recurring epidemics |
1873-75 | North America & Europe | Influenza | __ |
1878 | New Orleans | Yellow Fever | Last great epidemic of disease |
1885 | Plymouth, PA | Typhoid | __ |
1886 | Jacksonville, FL | Yellow Fever | __ |
1918 (High Point Year) | Worldwide | Influenza | More people hospitalized in World War I from influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps – with 80% death rate in some camps. |
These specific instances of cholera were mentioned:
YEAR | WHERE | DISEASE |
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1833 | Columbus, OH | Cholera |
1834 | New York City | Cholera |
1849 | New York | Cholera |
1851 | Coles Co., IL | Cholera |
1851 | The Great Plains | Cholera |
1851 | Missouri | Cholera |