1818 — Yellow Fever Outbreaks, esp. Charleston, SC (115) and New Orleans, LA (115)-234

 

–234  Blanchard tally based on numbers below.

 

Louisiana                   (115)

–1,115  New Orleans.                         Keating 1879, 31.[1]

–1,115             “                                  Jones. State of LA Health Board, 1883/84, cxliv[2]

—   115            “                                  Augustin 1909, p. 486.

—   115            “                                  Carrigan. The Saffron Scourge. 1961, pp. 57,[3] 92.

—   115            “                                  U.S. Marine Hospital Service 1896, p. 434.

 

New York                   (    4)

—   4 NYC Marine Hospital                U.S. Marine Hospital Service 1896, p. 434.

 

South Carolina          (115)

–115    Charleston                               U.S. Marine Hospital Service 1896, p. 434.

 

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

 

Jones, Joseph, MD. “History of Quarantine in Louisiana.” Beginning at p. cxiv in Quarantine and Sanitary operations of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana During 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883. Baton Rouge: State of Louisiana Board of Health. Leon Jastremski, State Printer, 1884. Google digitized at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=qSwPTVLVoiEC&pg=PR144&dq=Yellow+Fever+New+Orleans+1818&ei=PFUzSeT5HoLgywSh3NjqBA#PPP5,M1

 

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

 

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] Not used in our tally — appears to be a tally of all deaths, not just those from yellow fever.

[2]  “Dr. Bennet Dowler gives the following statistics for 1818:  Deaths, while male adults, 324; of female adults, 81; white children, 87; black male adults, 219; black female adults, 162; black children, 277.  The mortality augmented in each month until September, in which 166 died. Total whites, 492; total blacks, 658; grand total 1151.  Dr. Barton does not include 1818 amongst the epidemic years, and the statistics given by Dr. Dowler evidently relate to all diseases.”  (Blanchard note: Thus, we do not use this estimate.)

[3] Carrigan, in footnote 52, cites: New Orleans Medical & Surgical Journal, New Series, VI, March 1879, p. 699.