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From: "Cynthia Loring MacBain" <>
Subject: Fw: [VERMONT] historical causes of death 1657+
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:21:49 -0500

Thought this should be on the Ma list as well.

Cynthia MacBain
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Subject: [VERMONT] historical causes of death 1657+


> 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 - & thus
> influencing as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases
> of people disappearing from records can be traced to their 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 SC Smallpox
> 1739-40 Boston Measles
> 1747 CT,NY,PA,SC Measles
> 1759 N. Amer [areas inhabited by white people] Measles
> 1761 North America & West Indies Influenza
> 1772 North 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 & New York Measles
> 1793 Vermont [a "putrid" fever] & 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 & spreads] "Fever" 1831-2
> Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic Cholera 1832 NY
> City & 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 PA 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 North America & Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans [last great
> epidemic] Yellow Fever 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
> 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
> 1918 (high point year) Influenza Worldwide 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 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, & Missouri.
>
>
>
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