1803 — July 18-Oct, Yellow Fever, Charleston SC, New York, VA, Philadelphia-1,303-1,403

— 1,303-1,403  Blanchard tally based on breakouts below.

 

New York                  (708)

—           8       Catskill, NY     Keating 1879, 81.

—    6,700[1]  New York, NY    Keating 1879, 81; NYT, Oct 7, 1888.

—       700          “                     Sternberg 1894, 42.

–600-700          “                     U.S. Marine Hospital Service 1896, 432.

—       670          “                     Putnam.  The World’s Progress: A Dictionary of Dates. 1851, 605.

—       606          “                     Townsend. An Account…Yellow Fever…[NY]…1822. pp. 367-369

—     ~600          “                     Lossing. The Empire State: A Compendious History. 1888, 352.

 

Pennsylvania              (195)

—       195  Philadelphia           Keating 1879, 81; U.S. Marine Hospital Service 1896, 432.

 

South Carolina          (200-300)

–200-300  Charleston, SC.     Keating 1879, 81.

—         59         “                      Ramsay. Ramsay’s History of South Carolina. 1858, p. 47.

 

Virginia[2]                     (200)

—       200  Alexandria             Keating 1879, 81.

—       200  Norfolk                  U.S. Marine-Hosp. Svc.  Annual Rpt…FY 1895. 1896, 432.

 

Sources

 

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

 

Lossing, Benson John. The Empire State: A Compendious History of the Commonwealth of New York. Hartford, CT:  American Publishing Co., 1888.  Digitized by Google and accessed at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=KA2KZWfA-NYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

New York Times. “Yellow Fever Retrospect.” October 7, 1888. Accessed at:  http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D03EFD81F38E033A25754C0A9669D94699FD7CF&oref=slogin

 

Putnam, G. P. (Ed.). The World’s Progress: A Dictionary of Dates. NY: G. P. Putnam, 1851.  Digitized by Google: http://books.google.com/books?id=qz9HAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Ramsay, David (M.D.). Ramsay’s History of South Carolina, From its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808. Published by W. J. Duffie, Newberry, SC, printed in Charleston by Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. Digitized by archive.org and accessed 9-11-2016 at: https://archive.org/stream/ramsayshistorys00ramsgoog#page/n4/mode/2up

 

 

Sternberg, George M. (US Public Health Service, US Marine Hospital Service). “Yellow Fever,” pp. 39-72 in A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (Vol. 8), Albert Henry Buck, (Ed.). NY: William Wood & Co., 1894. Google digitized: http://books.google.com/books?id=Jr00AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Townsend, Peter S., M.D. An Account of the Yellow Fever as it Prevailed in The City of New-York, in the Summer and Autumn of 1822. NY: O. Halsted, 1823. Google digital preview at: http://books.google.com/books?id=pfsOAQAAIAAJ&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.  Digitized by Google and accessed at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=aTnxAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

 

 

[1] Not using this number which is out of line with the Marine Hospital Service and Lossing estimates.

[2] We are only counting one of these estimates in that it seems unlikely that both cities would have had identical fatalities.