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)