150 — 332

lornajarrettblanchard January 1, 1828

–332 Blanchard compilation based on State and locality breakouts below.

Georgia ( 10)

— 10 Fort Oglethorpe Augustin. History of Yellow Fever, 1909, p. 464.

Louisiana (150)

— 150 New Orleans. N.O. Pub. Lib. Yellow Fever Deaths in New Orleans, 1817-1905.

—>130 “ Carrigan. The Saffron Scourge. 1961, p. 92.[1]

— 130 “ Keating 1879, p. 85; Sternberg 1908, 719; US MHS 1896, p. 435.

Mississippi ( 90) Harden, et al. Mosquito News. March 1967, p. 60.[2]

South Carolina ( 26)

— 26 Charleston Keating 1879, 85; US Marine-Hospital Service. 1896, 435.

Tennessee ( 56)

— 56 Memphis Annual Report… National Board of Health, 1879. 1879, p. 252.

Narrative Information

Nat. Board of Health, on Memphis: “Yellow fever.—First epidemic in 1828; distributed pretty generally throughout the village, at that time occupying the bluff near the Mississippi, and mainly north of Market street; over 150 cases in a population of about 700; mortality, 56 recorded deaths.” (Annual Report of the National Board of Health, 1879. 1879, p. 252.)

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[1] Carrigan footnote: “For many years, the only figures available for yellow fever mortality in the city are the figures for yellow fever deaths in Charity Hospital, indicated by a plus after the number [as in case of 1828]. Presumably there were other deaths in New Orleans in private practice…”

[2] From: Table 1. — The major yellow fever epidemics for the 19^th and 20^th centuries.