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Plagues and Epidemics Many thanks to Tracy for posting this on the Lanarkshire Rootsweb Mailing List Tracy Dunne
YEAR - AILMENT - PLACE
1350* Bubonic Plague World wide 1499 Bubonic Plague London (UK) 1507* "Fever" UK (lasted from 1507 - 1550) 1551 Influenza UK 1555 Famine UK (rains bought famine and weakness) 1556* Bubonic Plague UK (this was an extreme event and lasted until 1563) 1578 Bubonic Plague UK 1586 Bubonic Plague Chesterfield UK (all Harvests failed) 1591 Acute Distress UK (as a result of above) 1593 Bubonic Plague UK 1596* Famine UK (harvests failed and epidemics began) 1603 Bubonic Plague UK 1612 Bubonic Plague UK 1617* Smallpox US (amongst the Native Indians) 1623 Bad Harvest UK (lasted 2 years) 1625* Bubonic Plague UK 1630 Plague at worst UK (many thousands died) 1631 Bubonic Plague UK 1633 Smallpox US (Native Indians) 1636* Bubonic Plague UK 1647 Yellow Fever West Indies 1648 Smallpox US 1648 Whooping Cough US 1654 Bubonic Plague UK 1657 Measles Boston, US 1662 Smallpox New York, US 1665* Bubonic Plague UK (extreme) 1668 Yellow Fever New York, US 1677* Smallpox Boston, US 1687 Measles Boston, US 1690 Yellow Fever NY US 1699 Yellow Fever SC US 1702* Yellow Fever NY US 1702 Scarlet Fever Boston US 1706 Yellow Fever SC US 1713 Measles Boston US 1721 Smallpox US 1723 Influenza World wide 1723* Famine UK (lasted seven years - poor harvests and resultant epidemics) 1728 Yellow Fever SC US 1729 Measles Boston US 1732 Yellow Fever SC US 1732 Influenza SC US 1735* Diphtheria US 1735* Scarlet Fever New England US (4 years) 1738 Smallpox Carolina US 1739* Measles Boston US 1743* Yellow Fever NY US 1747 Measles CT, NY, PA, SC, US 1759 Measles North America 1761 Influenza US and West Indies 1763* Smallpox Boston, US 1772 Measles US 1775* Influenza World Wide 1783 Bilious Disorder US ( this was fatal and thought to be similar to Dysentery) 1788 Measles PA, NY, US 1789 Influenza US 1792* Yellow Fever US (lasted 7 years) 1793 Unknown Fever PA, US 1793 Influenza Vermont, Virginia, US 1802 Smallpox Nebraska, US 1803 Yellow Fever NY US 1820* Fever US 1826* Cholera World Wide (this lasted until 1837) 1826* Dengue Fever US and West Indies 1829* Malaria US 1831* Cholera UK ( began world wide in 1826) 1831* Cholera US 1832 Influenza US 1833 Cholera Ohio US 1834 Cholera NY US 1837 Typhus PA US 1837 Smallpox US (Native Indians) 1841 Yellow Fever NO US 1847 Measles US (Native Indians) 1847 Yellow Fever NO US 1848* Cholera World Wide 1850 Yellow Fever US 1850* Dengue Fever US 1851 Cholera IL US 1852 Yellow Fever NO US 1853 Cholera UK (began in Birmingham) 1855 Yellow Fever US 1857* Influenza World Wide 1860 Smallpox Pennsylvania US 1861 Epidemics US (Civil War - numerous infectious diseases) 1865 Smallpox US 1865 Cholera US 1865 Typhus US 1868* Smallpox US ( lasted 7 years) 1873 Cholera US 1878 Yellow Fever FL US 1885 Typhoid PA US 1886 Yellow Fever FL US 1889* Influenza World Wide 1893 Polio US (first known outbreak) 1900* Plague US 1901* Smallpox US 1907* Polio US (lasted 9 years) 1917 Spanish Influenza World Wide (worst ever outbreak) 1931 Polio US 1942* Polio US (lasted 11 years) 1947* Smallpox UK (lasted 2 years) 1950 Polio World Wide. * denotes more than one year in duration.
For those that would like a more in depth study on this fascinating subject may like to try the following URL which covers worldwide health from 540AD until 1994 http://health.microworld.com/html/history_1.html Another interesting site full of that you never needed to know but your life would be incomplete without - BUBONIC PLAGUE
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