1828 — Yellow Fever, esp. Charleston SC/26, Memphis/56, MS/90, New Orleans/150 — 332

–332  Blanchard compilation based on State and locality breakouts below.

 

Georgia                      (  10)

—  10  Fort Oglethorpe            Augustin. History of Yellow Fever, 1909, p. 464.

 

Louisiana                   (150)

—  150  New Orleans.              N.O. Pub. Lib. Yellow Fever Deaths in New Orleans, 1817-1905.

>130            “                        Carrigan. The Saffron Scourge. 1961, p. 92.[1]

—  130            “                        Keating 1879, p. 85; Sternberg 1908, 719; US MHS 1896, p. 435.

 

Mississippi                  (  90)    Harden, et al. Mosquito News. March 1967, p. 60.[2]

 

South Carolina          (  26)

—  26  Charleston                    Keating 1879, 85; US Marine-Hospital Service. 1896, 435.

 

Tennessee                   (  56)

—  56  Memphis                       Annual Report… National Board of Health, 1879.  1879, p. 252.

 

Narrative Information

 

Nat. Board of Health, on Memphis: “Yellow fever.—First epidemic in 1828; distributed pretty generally throughout the village, at that time occupying the bluff near the Mississippi, and mainly north of Market street; over 150 cases in a population of about 700; mortality, 56 recorded deaths.”  (Annual Report of the National Board of Health, 1879.  1879, p. 252.)

 

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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

 

Harden, F. W., H. R. Hepburn and B. J. Ethridge. “A History of Mosquitoes and Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Mississippi 1699-1965, Mosquito News, Vol. 27, No. 1, March 1967, pp. 60-66. Accessed 5-8-2018 at: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/content/part/JAMCA/MN_V27_N1_P060-066.pdf

 

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

 

National Board of Health, United States. Annual Report of the National Board of Health, 1879.  Washington, DC: GPO, 1879. Google preview accessed 4-15-2018 at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=0SsgAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division. Yellow Fever Deaths in New Orleans, 1817-1905. Accessed 3-7-2010 at: http://nutrias.org/facts/feverdeaths.htm

 

Sternberg, George M. (US Public Health Service, US Marine Hospital Service). “Yellow Fever:  History and Geographic Distribution.” Pages 715-722 in Stedman, Thomas L., M.D. (Ed.) Appendix to the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. NY: William Wood & Co., 1908.  Google preview accessed 3-18-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=3ezqX415M5wC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#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] Carrigan footnote: “For many years, the only figures available for yellow fever mortality in the city are the figures for yellow fever deaths in Charity Hospital, indicated by a plus after the number [as in case of 1828]. Presumably there were other deaths in New Orleans in private practice…”

[2] From: Table 1. — The major yellow fever epidemics for the 19th and 20th centuries.