1835 — Aug-Sep, Yellow Fever, Charleston SC (25-26); New Orleans LA (284-289)–309-315

–309-315  Blanchard range based on State and local breakouts below.

—       314  Keating. A History of the Yellow Fever…  1879, p. 86.

 

Louisiana                   (284-289)

—  289  New Orleans   Keating. A History of the Yellow Fever… 1879, p. 86.

–>284           “            Carrigan. The Saffron Scourge. 1961, p. 92.[1]

—  284           “             Sternberg 1908, p719; U.S. Marine Hosp. Svc.  An. Rpt…1895. 1896, 436.

 

South Carolina          (    25-26)

–26  Charleston          Porter. “On…Climate…Salubrity of Fort Moultrie…” 1855; cites Simons.

–25  Charleston          Keating 1879, 86; U.S. Marine Hosp. Svc.  An. Rpt…1895. 1896, 436.

 

Sources

 

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

 

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

 

Porter, John B., M.D., Surgeon, U.S.A. “On the Climate and Salubrity of Fort Moultrie and Sullivan’s Island, Charleston Harbour, S.C., with Incidental Remarks on the Yellow Fever of the City of Charleston.” P. 92 of pp. 86-101 in American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Isaac Hays, M.D. (ed.), Vol. 29, Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1855. Google digitized. Accessed 12-29-2013: http://books.google.com/books?id=AFY9AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

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 writes in a 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 is the case in 1835]. Presumably there were other deaths in New Orleans in private practice…”