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 this
epidemic is still unnamed
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.
