1832 — Yellow Fever Outbreak, New Orleans, LA — 400
— 400 Barton. The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans… 1857.[1]
–~400 New Orleans Carrigan. The Saffron Scourge. 1961, pp. 67-68.
— 400 Sanitary Commission of New Orleans. Report of the Sanitary Commission. 1854, p. 465.
— 18 New Orleans U.S. Marine Hospital Service. Annual Report…FY 1895. 1896, p. 435.
Narrative Information
Carrigan: “Although not particularly severe, the yellow fever epidemic of 1832 is noteworthy for its association with the first appearance of Asiatic cholera in New Orleans. A mild outbreak of the Saffron Scourge was in progress when Asiatic cholera arrived on the scene in late October,[2] and for a time the Crescent City suffered the simultaneous activities of two pestilences. When cool weather set in yellow fever subsided, while the cholera continued its ravages unhindered throughout the winter months. According to Dr. Joseph Jones, the combined force of the two plagues raised the total mortality of New Orleans in 1832 to more than 8,000 in a population of about 55,000, and ‘marked this year as the most terrible in the annals of this city,’ a year in which one-seventh of the entire population died! Of the 8,000 deaths that year from all causes, Asiatic cholera claimed over 4,000 and yellow fever carried off about 400.”[3]
Sources
Barton, Edward H., MD. The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and other Cities in America (Third Edition, with a Supplement). New York: H. Bailliere; London and Paris, 1857. Google preview accessed 3-14-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=yEJZDrCO-ZkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Carrigan, Jo Ann. The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905 (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University, LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses, 1961. Accessed 3-11-2018 at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1665&context=gradschool_disstheses
Sanitary Commission of New Orleans. Report of the Sanitary Commission to His Honor J. L. Lewis, Mayor of the City of New Orleans. New Orleans: By Authority of the City Council of New Orleans, 1854. Google preview accessed 3-5-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=_EQJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#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] “Comparative Table [Yellow Fever and Cholera]. Estimate of the Salubrity of New Orleans, as affected by her Epidemics. 1st — of Yellow Fever.”
[2] Cites, in footnote 73: Louisiana Courier, September 29, October 20, 27, 1832.
[3] Cites, in footnote 74: Jones. Medical and Surgical Memoirs, III, pt. 1, cccvi. Notes: see also Leland A. Langridge, “Asiatic Cholera in Louisiana, 1832-1873,” (M.A. Thesis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1955).