EPIDEMICS

Of The Past

Contributed by Nancy Shaner




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 North America Measles
1761 N. Amer and West Indies Influenza
1772 North America Measles
1775-6 Worldwide Influenza
1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles
1793 Vermont Influenza
1793 VA Influenza
1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever
1803 New York Yellow Fever
1813 Tennessee, Maury County Black Tongue
1820-3 Nationwide
1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera
1832 NY City Cholera
1833 Columbus, OH Cholera
1834 New York City Cholera
1834 Tennessee, Maury County TN
1837 Philadelphia Typhus
1840 Tennessee, Stewart County, Yellow Fever
1844 February and March Tennessee Maury County
1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever
1847-8 Worldwide Influenza
1848-9 North America Cholera
1848 July Decatur County, TN
1849 New York Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850 July 17 Gainesboro, TN Cholera
1850-1 North America Influenza
1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains holera
1852 LA New Orleans
1854 Tennessee, Giles County
1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1857-9 Worldwide Influenza
1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox
1862 Tennessee, Shelby County, Yellow Fever
1862 Illinois Metropolis Measles
1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans Smallpox
1865-73 Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC Cholera
1866 United States Cholera
1865-73 Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC Yellow Fever
1873-5 North America and Europe Influenza
1873 Tennessee, Rutherford County
1878 Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis yellow
1878 New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever
1878 Tennessee, Hamilton Co Yellow Fever
1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
1918 Worldwide Influenza
1924 Tennessee, Stewart Co Typhoid