1869 — Smallpox, Cincinnati, OH (231), Michigan (42) — 273

Michigan        (  42)

— 42  Michigan Secretary of State. Sixteenth Annual Report…for the Year 1882. p. 269.[1]

Ohio                (231)

— 231  Cincinnati. Mitchell. “History of Epidemics in Cincinnati.” UCMB, 1/1, Nov 1920, 13.[2]

Sources

Michigan Secretary of State. Sixteenth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Michigan for the Year 1882. Lansing: W. S. George & Co., State Printers and Binders, 1884. Google digitized. Accessed 10-31-2013 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=X8sWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Mitchell, E. W., M.D. “History of Epidemics in Cincinnati.” University of Cincinnati Medical Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1920, pp. 10-18. Accessed 3-15-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=cvErAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] From Table: “Deaths from Small-pox in Michigan — Fourteen Years. Number and Percentages.” In other years deaths ranged from 9 in 1870 to 302 in 1872.

[2] “Small-pox has existed in this city [Cincinnati] from an early date….In more recent times we find that…In 1869 there were two hundred and thirty one…”