1811 — Oct-Apr 1812, Smallpox, New York City (117); Baltimore, MD (135) — 252

lornajarrettblanchard October 1, 1811

— 252 Blanchard compilation of numbers for Baltimore and New York City.

Maryland (135)

— 135 Baltimore, Oct-Apr 1812. Cordell. The Medical Annals of Maryland. 1903, p. 678.

— 95 Baltimore, Oct-Jan 1812. Quinan. Medical Annals of Baltimore… 1884, p. 25.[1]

— 40 Baltimore, Feb-Apr 1812. Quinan. Medical Annals of Baltimore… 1884, p. 26.

Massachusetts ( 2)

–2 Boston. Medical and Surgical Journal (Boston). “Small-pox and Revaccination.” 2-10-1881.

New York (117)[2]

— 117 NYC. American Medical Association. Transactions of the AMA (Vol. I). 1848, p. 105.[3]

Pennsylvania ( 1)

— 1 Southwark section, Philly, June 27. Adams Sentinel and General Advertiser. 6-28-1811.[4]

Narrative Information

Quinan: “1811….95 died from smallpox in October, November, December and January, 1812.”

Sources

Adams Sentinel and General Advertiser. “Wretched Condition of a Family.” 6-28-1811, col. 1. Accessed at: http://newspaperarchive.com/us/pennsylvania/gettysburg/gettysburg-adams-centinel/1811/06-28/page-3?tag=small+pox&rtserp=tags/small-pox?pci=7&ndt=bd&pd=1&pm=1&py=1811&pe=30&pem=1&pey=1812

American Medical Association. Transactions of the American Medical Association (Vol. I). Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1848, p. 105. Google digitized. Accessed 12-4-2012 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=4-pXAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, M.D. The Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Baltimore: Press of Williams & Wilkins Co. for the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1903. Google digitized. Accessed 1-15-2015 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=Wx8SAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Medical and Surgical Journal (Boston). “Small-pox and Revaccination.” Vol. CIV, No. 6, 2-10-1881, p. 137. Google digitized. Accessed 1-15-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=fNA9AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Quinan, John R., M.D. Medical Annals of Baltimore From 1608-1880, Including Events, Men and Literature, to Which is Added A Subject Index and Record of Public Services. Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1884. Google digitized. Accessed 1-14-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=xNcRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Notes at page 26 that in addition, “26 died from smallpox in February, 11 in March, 3 in April.”

[2] There were 21 smallpox deaths in NYC in 1812, but the time-frame is not indicated, so we do not use. (George Gregory, M.D. Lectures on the Eruptive Fevers; as now in the course of delivery at St. Thomas’s Hospital, in London (1^st American Edition with Notes and an Appendix, by H. D. Bulkley, M.D.) NY: S. S. & Wood, Publishers, 1851. (At page 335.)

[3] “Table of the annual numbers of deaths from Scarlet Fever, Measles, and Small-Pox in the city of New York, from the beginning of 1805 to the end of 1847;” page 105 in: American Medical Association. Transactions of the American Medical Association (Vol. I). Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1848.

[4] Notes that a Constable found at the Kelly home three Kelly children on the floor with smallpox, one of whom had just died, the mother on the floor intoxicated, and the father having “deserted them.” Cites Philadelphia Sentinel.