1804 — Smallpox Outbreak, New York City, NY –164-199

–199  Rosner. Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. 1995, 31.[1]

–169  NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene. Summary of Vital Statistics 2009. Dec 2010.[2]

–164  Jones. Contagious and Infectious Diseases. 1884, p. 193.[3]

Sources

Jones, Joseph, M.D., President of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana. Contagious and Infectious Diseases, Measures for Their Prevention and Arrest. Small Pox (Variola); Modified Small Pos (Varioloid); Chicken Pox (Varicella); Cow Pox (Variola Vaccinal): Vaccination, Spurious Vaccination Illustrated by Eight Colored Plates (Circular No. 2, Prepared for the Guidance of the Quarantine Officers and Sanitary Inspectors of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana.). Baton Rouge: Leon Jastremski, State Printer, 1884. Accessed 2-12-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=3VTboPycbBgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Summary of Vital Statistics 2009, The City of New York. December 2010. Accessed 12-4-2012: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2009sum.pdf

Rosner, David (Ed.). Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. Rutgers University Press, 1991, 236 pages. Partially digitized by Google. Accessed 3-29-2018 at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=o34QxI6lHwAC&pg=PA70&dq=1916+Polio+Epidemic&ei=Cy5DSZWvMIXAMpqalOYN#PPP7,M1

[1] Table 1. “Years of Unusually Large Numbers of Deaths from Selected Epidemic Diseases, 1798 to 1918.” (Rosner, David (Ed.).  Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City.  Museum of the City of NY, 1995.)

[2] Chart on cover page entitled “The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City…As Shown by the Death Rate as Recorded in the Official Records of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.”

[3] Table: “Introduction of Vaccination into New York. Total Deaths from all Causes, and from Small-Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever and Phthisis-Pulmonalis in the City of New York during a Period of Fifty Years, 1804-1853.”