1874 — Scarlet Fever, esp. NYC/879, Cincinnati/687, Brooklyn/479, Philly/461, VT/400-3,996

Document created by Wayne Blanchard Feb 2015, revised April 2018 and Dec 2019 for website: Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-Of-Life Events. https://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

–3,996 Blanchard tally from State and locality breakouts below.

Georgia, Savannah ( 6)

–6 Savannah. Dr. Duncan of Savannah in Minor 1875, p. 413.

Illinois, Chicago ( 105)

–105 City of Chicago Board of Health. Report of the Board of Health…1874 and 1875. P. 27.

Maryland, Baltimore ( 174)

–174 Year up to Oct 31. Dr. Edmund G. Waters, in Minor 1875, p. 410.

Massachusetts (1,382)

–1,382 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. CIX, July-December 1883, pp. 498-499.[1]

Michigan ( 440)

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

Minnesota ( 233)

–233 Staples. MN State Board of Health. Seventh Annual Report of…January, 1879. P. 58.[2]

New York (1,358)

–479 Brooklyn. Dr. James G. Watt, Brooklyn Health Officer, in Minor 1875, pp. 404-405.

–879 NYC. Annual Report of Dept. of Health of the City of New York…1911-1912., p. 228.

Ohio (Cincinnati) ( 687)

— 687 Cincinnati. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OH). Second Annual Report…1879, p. 986.^[3]

Jan 107; Feb 87; March 74; April 66; May 53; June 48; July 52; Aug 48; Sep 40

Oct 47; Nov 37; Dec 28

Philadelphia ( 461)

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

Vermont ( 400)

–400 Caverly. “Address…” Vermont State Board of Health Bulletin No. 1, V.8, 9-1-1907, p. 7.

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Caverly, Charles S., President, State Board of Health. “Address at Opening of Ninth Annual School for Instruction of Health Officers.” Vermont State Board of Health Bulletin No. 1, Vol. VIII, September 1, 1907. Google preview accessed 12-5-2019 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=PsxNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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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

Minor, Thomas C., M.D., Cincinnati, OH. “Art. 1. – Scarlet Fever in the United States.” The Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, J. C. Culbertson, M.D., Editor. New Series: Vol. XVIII, 1875. Accessed 12-6-2019 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=rz8nyBEJ6LwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true

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

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[1] “Registration Report of Massachusetts for the Year 1882,”

[2] “Table of Deaths from specified Zymotic Diseases from 1870 to 1877…”

[3] 486 of these deaths were in tenement housing.

[4] Table: “Total Deaths from Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the past Fifteen Years–1862-1882.

1879 — June-May 1880, Whooping Cough, esp. IN/687, GA/650, NC/612, TX/584 –11,064