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Genealogy, Census and Health Records

I often wonder when I see the census records and family records, if an epidemic has gone through the area. Sometimes you will see whole families wiped out in a very short time frame. This census information may help to understand.

 
1657 Boston Measles
1687 Boston Measles
1690 New York Yellow Fever
 
1713 Boston Measles
1729 Boston Measles
1732-33 Worldwide Influenza
1738 South Carolina Smallpox
1739-40 Boston Measles
1747 Conn., NY, PA & SC Measles
1759 North America Influenza
1761 North America & West Indies Influenza
1772 North America Measles
1775 New England unknown Epidemic
1775-76 Worldwide Influenza
(very bad)
1788 Philadelphia and NY Measles
1793 Vermont Influenza and a "putrid fever"
1794 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
1796-97 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
 
1803 New York Yellow Fever
1820-23 Nationwide "fever"
1831-32 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera
1832 New York
& other major cities		 Cholera
1833 Columbus, OH Cholera
1834 New York City Cholera
1837 Philadelphia Typhus
1841 Nationwide
(especially severe in South) 		Yellow fever
1847 New Orleans Yellow fever
1847-48 Worldwide Influenza
1848-49 North America Cholera
1849 New York Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850-51 North America Influenza
1851 Coles County, IL Cholera
1851 The Great Plains States Cholera
1851 Missouri Cholera
1852 Nationwide
(New Orleans hit hard in summer)		 Yellow fever
1855 Nationwide Yellow fever
1857-59 Worldwide Influenza
1860-61 Pennsylvania Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis & Washington, DC A series of reoccurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet fever & Yellow Fever
1873-75 North America & Europe Influenza
1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever
1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
 
1918 Worldwide
More people hospitalized in World War I for influenza than wounds.		 Influenza






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