54 –2,770

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Document created by Wayne Blanchard Dec 2012; Revised Feb 2015 and Dec 2019 for website: Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-Of-Life Events. https://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

— 2,770 Blanchard tally based on locality breakouts below.

Illinois, Chicago ( 10)

–10 US National Board of Health. Annual Report…National Board of Health, 1883. P. 134.[1]

Indiana ( ?)

–? Oakland. “The small-pox is raging in Oakland City.” Rochester Union, IN. 12-31-1875, p. 2.

Massachusetts ( 34)

–34 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. “Registration Report of [MA]…1882,” pp. 498-499.

Michigan ( 26)

–26 Michigan Secretary of State. Sixteenth Annual Report…for the Year 1882. p. 269.

New York City, NY (1,899)

— ? Ellenville. “…smallpox…has been raging…” NYT. “Small-pox…” 11-27-1875, p. 8.

–1,899 NYC. NYC Dept. of Health. Summary of Vital Statistics 2009. Dec 2010.^[2]

–1,899 NYC. Rosner. Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in [NYC]. 1995, 31.^[3]

–1,280 Annual Report of Dept. of Health of the City of New York for Years 1911-1912., p. 227.

Ohio ( 745)

–722 Cincinnati. Twitchell. “The Prevention of Smallpox.” Lancet-Clinic, Jan-June 1906, p693.

–722 “ National Board of Health Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 28, 1-7-1882, p. 229.^[4]

— 2 Jan — 14 Feb — 8 March — 7 April — 24 May — 20 June

— 20 July — 17 Aug — 25 Sep — 79 Oct –217 Nov –289 Dec

— 1 Jackson. Portsmouth Times, OH. “Brevities.” 12-4-1875, p. 3.

— 19 Portsmouth, Greenlawn. Portsmouth Times, OH. “Local Department.” 1-1-1876, 3.^[5]

–1 Nov 5. –1 Nov 7. –2 Nov 13 –1 Nov 15. –1 Nov 24. –1 Nov 27.

–1 Nov 29. –1 Dec 12. –3 Dec 14. –1 Dec 27. –1 Dec 28.

— 2 Sciotoville, Osmeier children. Portsmouth Times, OH. “Brevities.” 1-1-1876, p. 3.

Philadelphia, PA ( 54)

–54 City of Philadelphia. Annual Report (Vol. III), 1907, p. 100.^[6]

— ? Hawley, Delaware/Hudson Canal workers. Cases. NYT. “Small-pox…” 11-27-1875, p. 8.

Wisconsin ( 2)

— 2 Racine. Racine County Argus, WI. “Horrible Accident.” 12-16-1875, p. 3.

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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. CIX, July-December 1883. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883. Google preview accessed 4-27-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp0EAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=

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New York Times. “Small-pox Along The Hudson Canal.” 11-27-1875, p. 8. Accessed 12-7-2-2019: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/11/27/79260384.html?pageNumber=8

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[1] “Table of mortality from small-pox in the city of Chicago from 1851 to 1882, inclusive.”

[2] Chart on cover page entitled “The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City…As Shown by the Death Rate as Recorded in the Official Records of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.”

[3] “Table 1: Years of Unusually Large Numbers of Deaths from Selected Epidemic Diseases, 1798 to 1918.”

[4] Table: “Mortality from small-pox in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1872-1881.”

[5] “There have been but nineteen persons interred in Green Lawn Cemetery for the year 1875 whose death resulted from small pox.”

[6] Table entitled “Deaths from Smallpox from 1807 to 1907, inclusive, and Rater per 1,000 of Population.” Page 99 in: City of Philadelphia. First Annual Message of John E. Reyburn, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of the Departments of Public Health and Charities, Supplies, Public Education, Law, City Controller, City Treasurer, Commissioners of the Sinking Funds, Receiver of Taxes, and Board of Revision of Taxes for the Year Ending December 31, 1907 (Vol. III). Philadelphia: Dunlap Printing Co., 1908.