–285-289 Blanchard tally based on State and local breakouts below.

— 277 Sternberg 1908, p. 719.

— 271 Keating 1879, p. 87; US Marine-Hospital Service. 1896, p.436.

Alabama (66-70)

–70 Mobile Begins Aug 20 Augustin. History of Yellow Fever, 1909, 444.

–66 “ Keating 1879, 87; Sternberg 1908, 719; Toner 1873, 16;[1] USMHS 1896, 436.

Louisiana ( 211)

—>211 New Orleans Carrigan. The Saffron Scourge. 1961, p. 92.[2]

— 211 “ July 30 start. Keating 1879, 87; Sternberg 1908, 719; USMHS 1896, 436

Maritime ( 8)

–8 New York brig Orentes, after leaving Jamaica Oct 23 for New York.[3]

Narrative Information

Oct 8-12? [4], New Orleans: “At New Orleans during the week ending on the 8^th inst., there were 34 deaths by yellow fever. On the 10^th inst. eight new cases of fever were admitted into the Charity Hospital; and on the 12^th, there was only one new case admitted. During these two days there were seven deaths by yellow fever.” (Southport Telegraph, WI, “Health of New Orleans,” 11-9-1842, p. 2, col. 6.)

Oct 27, Mobile: “The Mobile Chronicle of the 27^th ult. says that the sickness which prevailed in that city has suddenly disappeared. Not a single case of yellow fever was reported to the board of health on the 26^th ult., and the weather continued cold and windy.” (Washington Globe, DC. “Health of Mobile.” 11-5-1842, p. 3, co. 3.)

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Augustin, George. History of Yellow Fever. New Orleans: 1909; General Books reprint, Memphis, TN, 2010.

Boston Post. “Melancholy.” 12-12-1842, p. 2, col. 4. Accessed 4-16-2018 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-dec-12-1842-p-2/

Brown, Harvey E., Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army. Quarantine on the Southern and Gulf Coasts. Washington: December 2,1872. Transmitted by Letter from The Secretary of War, Communicating, In obedience to law, information in relation to quarantine on the Southern and Gulf Coasts (Senate Documents, 42d Congress, 3d Session, Executive Document No. 9; in: United States Congress, Senate. Index to the Senate Executive Documents for the Third Session of the Forty-Second Congress of the United States of America, 1872-´73, in one Volume. Washington: GPO, 1873.) Accessed 8-23-2013 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=zI0FAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

Drake, Daniel, M.D., S. Hanbury Smith, M.D. and Francis G. Smith, M.D. (eds.). A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America…(Second Series). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Publishers, 1854. Google digitized: http://books.google.com/books?id=AW0_AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

Southport Telegraph, WI, “Health of New Orleans,” 11-9-1842, p. 2, col. 6. Accessed 4-16-2018 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/southport-telegraph-nov-09-1842-p-2/

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 digitized: http://books.google.com/books?id=3ezqX415M5wC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

Toner, Joseph M. (M.D., President, American Medical Association). “The Distribution and Natural History of Yellow Fever as it has Occurred at Different Times in the United States” (Paper read before the American Public Health Association, November 12, 1873). Washington, DC: 1873, 33 pages. Accessed 8-23-2013 at: http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/LSUBK01/id/10240/rec/19

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Washington Globe, DC. “Health of Mobile.” 11-5-1842, p. 3, co. 3. Accessed 4-16-2018 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/washington-globe-nov-05-1842-p-3/

[1] Cites Drake, p. 222 and Brown.

[2] 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…”

[3] Boston Post. “Melancholy.” 12-12-1842, p. 2, col. 4.

[4] This article is in a papr published Nov 9, and notes events on the 8^th, 10^th and 12^th “inst.” (which at the time meant that month). Could not be Nov, so must be Sep or Oct. September would have been very much out of date.

1842 — July-Oct, Yellow Fever Epidemics, Mobile, AL (66-77), New Orleans (211) –285-289