Some of the major epidemics in the United States (and elsewhere) through 1918:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Year(s)<\/b><\/td>\n	Location<\/b><\/td>\n	Disease<\/b><\/td>\n	Comments<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1657<\/td>\n	Boston<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1687<\/td>\n	Boston<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1690<\/td>\n	New York<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1713<\/td>\n	Boston<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1729<\/td>\n	Boston<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1732-3<\/td>\n	Worldwide<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1738<\/td>\n	South Carolina<\/td>\n	Smallpox<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1739-40<\/td>\n	Boston<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1747<\/td>\n	CT, NY, PA, SC<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1759<\/td>\n	N. America<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1761<\/td>\n	North America & West Indies<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1772<\/td>\n	North America<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1775<\/td>\n	North America (especially NorthEast)<\/td>\n	unknown<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1775-6<\/td>\n	Worldwide<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1783<\/td>\n	\u00a0Dover, DE<\/td>\n	Bilious Disorder<\/td>\n	“extremely fatal”, likely hepatitis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1788<\/td>\n	Philadelphia, New York<\/td>\n	Measles<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\n	Vermont<\/td>\n	“putrid fever” and Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\n	Virginia<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\n	Philadelphia<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\n	Harrisburg, PA<\/td>\n	Unknown<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\n	Middletown, PA<\/td>\n	Unknown<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1794<\/td>\n	Philadephia<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1796-7<\/td>\n	Philadelphia<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1798<\/td>\n	Philadelphia<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	I’d consider this one long 5+ year endemic period with flare-ups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1803<\/td>\n	New York<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1820-3<\/td>\n	Nationwide<\/td>\n	“Fever”<\/td>\n	starts Schuylkill River<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1831-2<\/td>\n	Nationwide<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	brought from Asia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1832<\/td>\n	New York City, and others<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1833<\/td>\n	Columbus, OH<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1834<\/td>\n	New York City<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1837<\/td>\n	Philadelphia<\/td>\n	Typhus<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1841<\/td>\n	Nationwide<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	especially bad in South<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1847<\/td>\n	New Orleans<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1847-8<\/td>\n	Worldwide<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1848-9<\/td>\n	North America<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1849<\/td>\n	New York<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1850<\/td>\n	Nationwide<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1850-1<\/td>\n	North America<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1851<\/td>\n	Great Plains, IL, MO<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1852<\/td>\n	Nationwide<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	8000 die in New Orleans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1855<\/td>\n	Nationwide<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1857-9<\/td>\n	Worldwide<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1860-1<\/td>\n	Pennsylvania<\/td>\n	Smallpox<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1865-73<\/td>\n	Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans<\/td>\n	Smallpox<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1865-73<\/td>\n	Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC<\/td>\n	Cholera<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1873-5<\/td>\n	North America, Europe<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1878<\/td>\n	New Orleans<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1885<\/td>\n	Plymouth, PA<\/td>\n	Typhoid<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1886<\/td>\n	Jacksonville, FL<\/td>\n	Yellow Fever<\/td>\n	<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1918<\/td>\n	Worldwide<\/td>\n	Influenza<\/td>\n	More people were hospitalized in WW1 from this epidemic than from wounds. Up to 80% death rate in some US Army camps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \nBack to Genealogy Home<\/a><\/p>\n \n Contents Copyright \u00a9 2000, 2022 Christine A. Doyle<\/p>\n <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of the major epidemics in the United States (and elsewhere) through 1918: \u00a0Year(s) Location Disease Comments 1657 Boston Measles 1687 Boston Measles 1690 New York Yellow Fever 1713 Boston Measles 1729 Boston Measles 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":719,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions\/2224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}