Epidemics Which Affected Texas 
                                          1820 - 1920

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YEARS                           DISEASES
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1820-25                        Measles, Chicken Pox, Smallpox, Cholera
1828                           Scarlet Fever
1830-32                        Yellow Fever (Yellow Jack)
1835-38                        Smallpox, Scarlet Fever 
1847                           Yellow Fever 
1847-48                        Influenza 
1848-49                        Cholera 
1850                           Yellow Fever 
1850-51                        Influenza, Measles 
1852                           Yellow Fever   
1857-59                        Influenza (one of disease’s greatest epidemics) 
1860-61                        Smallpox 
1864-1865                      Smallpox
1870-1871                      Typhoid Fever
1872                           Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, 
Scarlet Fever 
1873-75                        Influenza 
1885                           Typhoid 
1890-1892                      Scarlet Fever
1910                           Smallpox
1917 - 1918                    Influenza (high point year) 
1920                           Scarlet Fever, Measles