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
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