1743 — July 25-Oct, Yellow Fever Epidemic, New York City, NY — 217

–217  Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953 & 1979, p. 154 (citing Mayor John Cruger).

–217  Keating. A History of the Yellow Fever… 1879, p. 78.

–217  Sternberg. “Yellow Fever:  History and Geographic Distribution.” 1908, p. 719.

–217  U.S. Marine-Hospital Service. Annual Report of…Surgeon-General…FY 1895. p. 429.[1]

 

Narrative Information

 

Duffy: “Two years later [after 1741 outbreak] yellow fever appeared again in New York City and raged from July to October, 1743. A survey by John Cruger, the mayor, showed a total of 217 deaths from July 25 to September 25, when he declared, the city was clear of the disease. The population of New York City at this date probably was around 11,000, and on the bases of this figure, the death toll ran only about 2 per cent of the total population — an insignificant figure in colonial days.”[2] (Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953 & 1979, p. 154.)

 

Sources

 

Duffy, John. Epidemics in Colonial America. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1953, reprinted 1979.

 

Keating, J. M. A History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, TN: Howard Association, 1879. Google preview accessed 3-16-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=WEIJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Sternberg, George M. (US Public Health Service, US Marine Hospital Service). “Yellow Fever:  History and Geographic Distribution.” Pages 715-722 in Stedman, Thomas L., M.D. (Ed.) Appendix to the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. NY: William Wood & Co., 1908.  Google preview accessed 3-18-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=3ezqX415M5wC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

United States Marine-Hospital Service, Treasury Department. Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1895 (Document No. 1811). Washington, DC: GPO, 1896. Google preview accessed 3-16-2018 at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=aTnxAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

 

[1] Cites:  J.H. Griscom, Visitation of Yellow Fever, p. 3. (Toner.).

[2] Blanchard note: However, the yellow fever was primarily a three-month outbreak, or one-fourth the year.