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 greatest 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 hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic (influenza) 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

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