1751 — Dysentery Epidemic, Canaan (~10), Hartford (64) and New Haven (45), CT — ~119

—<119  Blanchard tally from Caulfield, including conversion of “a great many” into <10.

 

Canaan           (<10)

— ~10?   “…a great many old people” died. (Caulfield 1942, p. 51, citing Webster.)[1]

 

Hartford         (  64)

–64  Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” 1942, p. 51.[2]

 

New Haven     (  45)

–45  Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” 1942, p. 51.[3]

 

Narrative Information

 

Beach: “In 1751 dysentery, in an epidemic form, and also angina maligna, became general, and prevailed for several years.” (Beach, Wm. Morrow, M.D. “Contagions and Epidemics in America,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. IV, No. 11, 3-14-1885, p. 282.)

 

Graves: “The 1751 ‘the dysentery was epidemic and mortal in Hartford and New Haven probably in many other places. With this fatal dysentery prevailed a mortal angina for several years.’ ‘The dysentery and ulcerous sore throat were very fatal this year in Guilford.” (p. 76)

 

Webster: “The dysentery was epidemic and mortal, in the same year, at Hartford and New-Haven; probably in many other places. — With this fatal dysentery prevailed a mortal angina for several years.” (1799. p. 242.)

 

Sources

 

Beach, Wm. Morrow, M.D. “Contagions and Epidemics in America,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. IV, No. 11, 3-14-1885, pp. 281-282. Google preview accessed 1-28-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=EvVGAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Caulfield, Ernest. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 35, April 1942, pp. 4-65. Accessed 1-17-2018 at: https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/865

 

Webster, Noah. A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated (in two volumes). Hartford, DT: Hudson & Goodwin, 1799. Accessed 1-7-2018 at: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N27531.0001.001/1:12?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] For the purpose of a tally we convert “a great many” to approximately 10.

[2] Cites Webster Pestilential Diseases, I, 241-242, II, 23-27; New England Gen. Register, Xii, p. 124.

[3] Cites Webster Pestilential Diseases, I, 241-242, II, 23-27; New England Gen. Register, Xii, p. 124.