From: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001460.html This source tells you when major floods, avalanches, tidal waves, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and other disasters took place. Major U.S. Epidemics 1793 Philadelphia: more than 4,000 residents died from yellow fever. 1832 July-Aug., New York City: over 3,000 people killed in a cholera epidemic. Oct., New Orleans: cholera took the lives of 4,340 people. 1848 New York City: more than 5,000 deaths caused by cholera. 1853 New Orleans: yellow fever killed 7,790. 1867 New Orleans: 3,093 perished from yellow fever. 1878 Southern states: over 13,000 people died from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley. 1916 Nationwide: over 7,000 deaths occurred and 27,363 cases were reported of polio (infantile paralysis) in America's worst polio epidemic. 1918 March-Nov., nationwide: outbreak of Spanish influenza killed over 500,000 people in the worst single U.S. epidemic. 1949 Nationwide: 2,720 deaths occurred from polio, and 42,173 cases were reported. 1952 Nationwide: polio killed 3,300; 57,628 cases reported; worst epidemic since 1916. 1981 1981 to Dec. 1999: total U.S. AIDS cases reported to Centers for Disease Control: 724,656; total AIDS deaths reported: 425,357. Luck, Sandy P.S. My family: Monmouth Co., NJ Surnames: TILTON & HARRIS, PYLE & MORAN Mercer Co., KY Surnames: PATTERSON & BUNTON, LAWSON & McGINNIS "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." --- Helen Keller