--part1_99.ab261f9.2704ba77_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I rec/d the following, I hope it will give insight into what our ancestors went thru --part1_99.ab261f9.2704ba77_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <WVPIONEERS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yh04.mx.aol.com (rly-yh04.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.36]) by air-yh01.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.3) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:19:42 -0400 Received: from lists3.rootsweb.com (lists3.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.39]) by rly-yh04.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:19:16 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists3.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e8Q3FCl00200; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:15:12 -0700 Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:15:12 -0700 X-Original-Sender: qmgen@juno.com Mon Sep 25 20:15:10 2000 Old-To: WVPIONEERS-L@rootsweb.com, wvwebste-L@rootsweb.com Old-Cc: WVBRAXTO-L@rootsweb.com, Harris-Hunters-L@rootsweb.com, HOLLINGSWORTH-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:12:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20000925.201302.-738201.0.qmgen@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-51,53,55-59,61,63 From: Patsy H Weikart <qmgen@juno.com> Subject: [WVPioneers] Periods of Disease Resent-Message-ID: <-juLTD.A.8C._SB05@lists3.rootsweb.com> To: WVPIONEERS-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: WVPIONEERS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WVPIONEERS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1763 X-Loop: WVPIONEERS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: WVPIONEERS-L-request@rootsweb.com PERIODS of DISEASE Taken from the Genealogical Society of Stanislaus County,CA - newsletter titled: " Stanislaus Researcher" - Volume 22 - Number 7 - July 2000 Order of listing: 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 1732-33 Worldwide- Influenza 1738 - South Carolina - Smallpox 1739-40 - Boston - Measles 1747- CT, NY, PA, SC - Smallpox 1759 - North America - Measles 1761 - North America - Influenza 1772 - North America - Measles 1775 - North America- Unknown 1775-76 - Worldwide- Influenza 1783 - Dover, DE - Bilious Disorder 1788 - Phila. + New York - Measles 1793- VT (putrid fever) + Influenza 1793- VA Influenza (500 in 4 weeks) 1793 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever 1793 - Harrisburg, PA - Unknown 1793 - Middletown, PA - Yellow Fever 1794 - Philadelphia- Yellow Fever 1796 - 97 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever 1798 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever 1803 - New York- Yellow Fever 1820- 1823- - Nationwide- "Fever" 1831-1832- - Nationwide- Asiatic Cholera 1832- New York & other big cities - Cholera 1833 - Columbus, Ohio - Cholera 1833-34 - Kentucky - Cholera 1834- New York City, New York - Cholera 1837 - Philadelphia - Typhus 1841- Nationwide - (bad in South) - Yellow Fever 1847 - New Orleans - Yellow Fever 1847-48 - Worldwide- Influenza 1848-49 - North America - Cholera 1849 - New York - Cholera 1850- Nationwide- Yellow Fever 1851- Coles Co., Great Plains, MO. - Cholera 1852 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever 1855 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever 1857-59 - Worldwide - Influenza 1860-61 - Pennsylvania- Smallpox 1865-73 - 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. 1873-75 - North America + Europe - Influenza 1878- New Orleans - Yellow Fever 1885 - Plymouth, PA - Typhoid 1886 - Jacksonville, FL - Yellow Fever 1918 - Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in World War I from this epidemic than wounds. U S Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. - Influenza or Spanish Flu. (post by patsy) ==== WVPIONEERS Mailing List ==== If your extended family has a reunion or other events planned in the coming months, please send a message to me (dhamrick@neo.rr.com) and I will post it as a tag line like this. ============================== Choose from over 19,000 mailing lists at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ --part1_99.ab261f9.2704ba77_boundary--