sent from another list... Jennifer Sherwood Braswell jensgen@iol10.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <JRoot1969@aol.com> To: <HOOKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:41 PM Subject: [HOOKER] Fwd: Epidemics : I thought this may be helpful to other researchers also. Jackie : : : From: "Tamara and Allen Wilkerson" <hoosiers@digital.net> .com>, : Subject: Epidemics : Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:11:51 -0500 .1300 : : I received this from another list and wanted to share. : Regards from Sunny South, Sebring, Fl. : Tammy Wilkerson : Major epidemics can help us to know where and when to : look for certain kinds of records. It can help us question : when people moved on. Here is a list of epidemics. : : : 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 : : : : : : ============================== : Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. : RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. : http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi : : : --part1_10.d7b23d.25e0ca5e_boundary-- : :