262–2,709

lornajarrettblanchard January 1, 1871

–2,709 Wayne Blanchard compilation based on State breakouts below.[1]

Maryland (625) Baltimore

— 625 Baltimore. Quinan, John R Medical Annals of Baltimore From 1608-1880… 1884, p. 45.[2]

Michigan (696)

— 696 State of MI. Ninth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return…1875. 1881, 279.

Minnesota (335)

–325 Staples. “Report on Diphtheria,” pp. 27-53 in MN Board of Health. Annual Report 1879.[3]

New York City (791)

–791 Annual Report of Dept. of Health of the City of New York for Years 1911-1912., p. 228.

–107 Jan –86 March –72 May –66 July –20 Sep –65 Nov

— 77 Feb –73 April –52 June –55 Aug –47 Oct –71 Dec

Pennsylvania (262)

–262 Philadelphia. Jones. Contagious and Infectious Diseases. 1884, p. 196.^[4]

Sources

Board of Health. Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Department of Health of The City of New York for the Year Ending December 31, 1912. NYC: 1913. Google preview accessed 11-26-2019: https://books.google.com/books?id=XqMGqwcyOp8C&ppis=_e&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=1871&f=true

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

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

Staples, Franklin, M.D. “Report on Diphtheria,” pp. 27-53 in Minnesota State Board of Health. Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Minnesota, January, 1879. Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith & Harrison, 1879. Google digitized: http://books.google.com/books?id=10VNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

State of Michigan, Superintendent of Vital Statistics. “Scarlet Fever.” Ninth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Michigan for the Year 1875. Lansing, W. S. George & Co., 1881. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=dYyoAEYyeDoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Compiled by B. Wayne Blanchard, November 2019 for inclusion in website Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-of-Life Events, accessible at: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

[2] Referred to as an epidemic.

[3] “Table of Deaths from specified Zymotic Diseases from 1870 to 1877…” p. 58.

[4] Table: “Total Deaths from Consumption, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever and Small-pox in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during Twenty-one Years–1862-1882.