1844 — Yellow Fever, esp. Galveston TX (400); Mobile AL (40); New Orleans LA (148)– 590

–590  Total     Blanchard tally based upon numbers below.

 

Alabama         (  40)

–40  Mobile                Aug 14 start    Augustin.  History of Yellow Fever, 1909, 444.

 

Louisiana       (148)

–148  New Orleans     July-Sep          Carrigan 1961, p. 93; Keating 1879, p. 87;

–148            “                                      Sternberg 1908, p. 719; US Marine-Hosp. Svc. 1896, p436.

 

New York      (     2)

—     2  Marine Hosp.                           Keating 1879, p. 87; US Marine-Hosp. Svc. 1896, p. 436.

 

Texas              (400)

—  400  Galveston       July 5 start[1]     Keating 1879, 87; Sternberg 1908, 719; USMHS 1896, 436

 

Sources

 

Augustin, George. History of Yellow Fever. New Orleans: Published for the Author by Search & Pfaff Ltd., 1909; General Books reprint, Memphis, TN, 2010. 1909 copy digitized at: http://archive.org/stream/historyofyellowf00auguuoft#page/n4/mode/1up

 

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

 

Cartwright, Gary. Galveston: A History of the Island. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1991. Google preview accessed 4-17-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=RFRu8kYThEcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Keating, J. M. A History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, TN: Howard Association, 1879. Google preview accessed 3-16-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=WEIJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Sternberg, George M. (US Public Health Service, US Marine Hospital Service). “Yellow Fever:  History and Geographic Distribution.” Pages 715-722 in Stedman, Thomas L., M.D. (Ed.) Appendix to the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. NY: William Wood & Co., 1908.  Google preview accessed 3-18-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=3ezqX415M5wC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#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] Cartwright writes that “the virus that killed…hundreds…in 1844 was known to have been brought to the Island by an afflicted seaman aboard the French frigate Brillante.” (p. 74)