1657 Boston Measles 1687 Boston Measles 1690 New York Yellow Fever 1713 Boston Measles 1729 Boston Measles 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738 South Carolina Smallpox 1739-40 Boston Measles 1747 CT, NY, PA, SC Measles 1759 N. America Measles: areas inhabited by white people 1761 N. America and West Indies Influenza 1772 N. America Measles 1775 N. America Unknown epidemic: especially hard in NE 1775-6 Worldwide Influenza: one of the worst epidemics 1783 Dover, DE "Extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles 1793 Vermont A "putrid" fever and Influenza 1793 Virginia Influenza: killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever: over 4,000 deaths 1793 Harrisburg, PA Many unexplained deaths 1793 Middletown, PA Many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever: one of the worst 1803 New York Yellow Fever 1820-3 Nationwide"Fever" - started Schuylkill River and spread 1822 New York and New Orleans Yellow Fever 1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera: brought by English emigrants 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera 1832 New Orleans Asiatic Cholera: over 1,000 deaths 1832 Ayrshire towns of Stevenston, Dalry and Kilbride Cholera 1833 Columbus, OH Cholera 1834 New York City Cholera 1837 Philadelphia Typhus 1841 Nationwide Yellow Fever: especially severe in the south 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza 1848-9 North America Cholera 1849 New York Cholera 1849-50 New Orleans Cholera: 3,000 deaths 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1850 Alabama, New York Cholera 1850-1 North America Influenza 1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains and Missouri Cholera 1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1853 New Orleans Yellow Fever: 8,000 die 1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1857-9 Worldwide Influenza: one of the greatest epidemics 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC Smallpox, a series of recurring epidemics of Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever 1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last great epidemic 1878 Memphis, TN Yellow Fever 1885 Chicago, IL water-borne disease 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1900 Galveston, TX Cholera 1902 Alaska measles 1905 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last US outbreak 1918 Worldwide[high point yr.] Influenza: 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 Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Hunting season is all year long in genealogy." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002