1657 Boston: Measles
1687 Boston: Measles
1690 New York: Yellow Fever
1713 Boston: Measles
1729 Boston: Measles
1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza
1738 South Carolina: Smallpox
1739-40 Boston: Measles
1747 Conn, NY, PA & SC: Measles
1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people):
Measles
1761 North America & West Indies: Influenza
1772 North America: Measles
1775 North America (especially hard in New England):
Epidemic (unknown)
1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu
epidemics)
1788 Philadelphia & NY: Measles
1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever"
1793 Virginia: Influenza (killed 500 people in 5 counties
in 4 weeks)
1793 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst)
1783* Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder
1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) many
unexplained deaths
1794 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever
1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst)
1803 New York: Yellow Fever
1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill
River, PA & spreads)
1831-32 Nationwide: Typhus
1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in
South)
1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever
1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza
1848-49 North America: Cholera
1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever
1850-51 North America: Influenza
1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans 8,000 die
in summer)
1855 Nationwide (many parts) Yellow Fever
1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's
greatest epidemics)
1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Memphis & Washington DC: A series of recurring
epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera,
Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever
1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza
1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic
of disease)
1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL: Yellow Fever
1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year)
More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than
wounds. US Army training
camps became death camps - with 80% death rate in some camps
These specific instances of cholera were mentioned:
1833 Columbus, OH;
1834 New York City;
1849 New York;
1851 Coles Co, IL;
1851 The Great Plains;
1851 Missouri
Information taken from: Sept-Oct,
1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz
County "Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol 20, No l,
Fall 1993, South Bend (IN) Area Genealogical Society via Julie
Burnett, Sue in Arizona and Judy Nordgren SMCAGS
Source
location: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaclinto/resources/epidemics.htm