Subject: [COULOMBE-L] Fw: Epidemics

You may find this very useful in your genealogy searching...


: 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
:
: "In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors
: disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help.
: Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus
: influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many
: cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying
: during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area.  Some
: of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below:
:
: 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. Amer [areas inhabited by white people]       Measles
: 1761    N. Amer and West Indies                         Influenza
: 1772    N. America                                      Measles
: 1775    N. Amer [especially hard in NE] epidemic        Unknown
: 1775-6  Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics]          Influenza
: 1783    Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"]                   Bilious Disorder
: 1788    Philadelphia and New York                       Measles
: 1793    Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and                  Influenza
: 1793    VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks]        Influenza
: 1793    Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics]       Yellow Fever
: 1793    Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths]        Unknown
: 1793    Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths]         Unknown
: 1794    Philadelphia, PA                                Yellow Fever
: 1796-7  Philadelphia, PA                                Yellow Fever
: 1798    Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst]             Yellow Fever
: 1803    New York                                        Yellow Fever
: 1820-3  Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and
: spreads]       "Fever"
: 1831-2  Nationwide [brought by English emigrants]       Asiatic Cholera
: 1832    NY City and other major cities                  Cholera
: 1837    Philadelphia                                    Typhus
: 1841    Nationwide [especially severe in the south]     Yellow Fever
: 1847    New Orleans                                     Yellow Fever
: 1847-8  Worldwide                                       Influenza
: 1848-9  North America                                   Cholera
: 1850    Nationwide                                      Yellow Fever
: 1850-1  North America                                   Influenza
: 1852    Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer]    Yellow Fever
: 1855    Nationwide [many parts]                         Yellow Fever
: 1857-9  Worldwide [one of the greated epidemics]        Influenza
: 1860-1  Pennsylvania                                    Smallpox
: 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans}          Smallpox
:         Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC}              Cholera
:         [A series of recurring epidemics of:}           Typhus
:                                                         Typhoid
:                                                         Scarlet Fever
:                                                         Yellow Fever
: 1873-5  N. America and Europe                           Influenza
: 1878    New Orleans [last great epidemic]               Yellow Fever
: 1885    Plymouth, PA                                    Typhoid
: 1886    Jacksonville, FL                                Yellow Fever
: 1918    Worldwide [high point yr] more people were      Influenza
:         hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than
:         wounds. US Army training camps became
:         death camps, with 80% death rate in some
:         camps
:
: Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned:
:
: 1833    Columbus, OH
: 1834    New York City
: 1849    New York
: 1851    Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains, and Missouri
:
: This came from a Kansas List.
:
: Regards,
:
: Alison Franks
: Archivist, Rawson Family Association

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