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: one of the worst epidemics |
1793 | Harrisburg, PA | Many unexplained deaths |
1793 | Middletown, PA | Many unexplained deaths |
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 |
1831-2 | Nationwide | Asiatic Cholera: brought by English emigrants |
1832 | NY City and other major cities | 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 |
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: 8,000 die in New Orleans |
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, Cholera :A series of recurring epidemics of, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever |
1873-5 | N. America and Europe | Influenza |
1878 | New Orleans | Yellow Fever: last great epidemic |
1885 | Plymouth, PA | Typhoid |
1886 | Jacksonville, FL | Yellow Fever |
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 |