--part1_10.d7b23d.25e0ca5e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I thought this may be helpful to other researchers also. Jackie --part1_10.d7b23d.25e0ca5e_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (rly-zc05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.5]) by air-zc01.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.24) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:18:21 -0500 Received: from lists3.rootsweb.com (lists3.rootsweb.com [206.169.84.39]) by rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.24) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:18:03 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists3.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA10434; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:17:14 -0800 Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:17:14 -0800 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Tamara and Allen Wilkerson" <[email protected]> Old-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "Standridge List" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Rush County" <[email protected]>, "Rigdon List" <[email protected]>, "Richland County" <[email protected]>, "Price List" <[email protected]>, "Preble List" <[email protected]>, "Power List" <[email protected]>, "Pope County" <[email protected]>, "Palmer List" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "Lewis List" <[email protected]>, "Jasper County Illinois" <[email protected]>, "Jarvis List" <[email protected]>, "Hunt List" <[email protected]>, "Hickox List" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Epidemics Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:11:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/54 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] 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. 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