New Orleans, LA and SC — 862

lornajarrettblanchard January 1, 1850

–862 Blanchard tally based on Seventh Census (ended in May) and 97 for New Orleans, Aug-Sep.

–785 U.S. Census. Mortality Statistics of the Seventh Census…1850. 1855, p. 19.[1]

–785 U.S. Census. Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census 1860. Senate, p. 115.[2]

Alabama 24 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 51.

Connecticut 4 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 61.

Delaware 1 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 64.

Florida 3 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 65.

Georgia 1 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 77.

Illinois 3 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 89.

Indiana 3 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 91.

Louisiana 677 Blanchard tally based on Seventh Census and Keating/USMHS.[3]

Louisiana 575 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 109.

–568 Jefferson and Orleans Parishes. US Census. Mortality Statistics…1850. p. 105.

–107 New Orleans. New Orleans Board of Health. “…Table…Deaths…” in SMR 1851, 67.

–102 “ July-Oct Keating 1879, 87; Sternberg 1908, 719; USMHS 1896, 437

— 99 “ Fenner. “Reports…Louisiana.” Southern Med. Reports, 1851, 26, 30.

— 1 New Orleans. Jan 14. Fenner. “Reports…Louisiana.” Southern Med. Rpts., 1851.

— 1 “ Mar 27 Fenner. “Reports From Louisiana.” Southern Med. Reports, 1851.

— 64 “ Aug Fenner. “Reports…Louisiana.” Southern Med. Reports, 1851, 26.

— 33 “ Sep Fenner. “Reports…Louisiana.” Southern Med. Reports, 1851, 30.

Maine 2 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 117.

Maryland 6 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 121.

Massachusetts 9 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 135.

Mississippi 2 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 153.

Missouri 4 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 157.

New Jersey 1 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 167.

New York 16 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 185.

North Carolina 1 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 199.

Ohio 5 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 221.

South Carolina 124 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 254.[4]

Tennessee 1 US Census. Mortality Statistics…Seventh Census…1850. p. 265.

Narrative Information

Ellis: ““Originally brought to the Western Hemisphere by the African slave trade, yellow fever is an acute infectious disease transmitted in a man-vector-man cycle by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito. The vector acquires the virus by a blood meal from an infectious human, and following an incubation period of approximately twelve days, it can then transmit the disease throughout its lifetime. Yellow fever is characterized by sudden onset of headache, chills, and fever followed by nausea, muscular pain, prostration, and the appearance of jaundice. At this point, from three to five days after onset, the patient may hemorrhage from external orifices, throw up the black vomit caused by internal hemorrhaging, and die following convulsions or coma, or the person may experience a remission of symptoms and begin a course of slow convalescence….Survival of an attack confers a lifelong immunity on white and black alike, but blacks possessed a genetic resistance to the disease that took its greatest toll among whites.” (Ellis. Yellow Fever & Public Health in the New South. Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1992, p. 31.)

Sources

Ellis, John H. Yellow Fever & Public Health in the New South. University Press of Kentucky, 1992, p. 31. Partially google digitized at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=pqRcT7sFYYYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Fenner, E.D., M.D. “Reports From Louisiana.” Southern Medical Reports (Vol. II, 1850). New Orleans: D. Davies, 1851. Digitized by Google at: http://books.google.com/books?id=6NhXAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=true

United States Census Office, Department of the Interior. Mortality Statistics of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. By J. D. B. De Bow, Superintendent United States Census. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1855. Accessed 2-23-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=Aopc-5aHBjkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

United States Census Office, Department of the Interior. Preliminary Report on The Eighth Census, 1860 (Ex. Doc. No. 116, House of Representatives, 37^th Congress, 2^nd Session). Washington: GPO, 1862. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=R08UAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] The Census was for the time period of June 1, 1849 to June 1, 1850.

[2] United States Census Office, Department of the Interior. Preliminary Report on The Eighth Census, 1860 (Senate, 37^th Congress, 2^nd Session). Washington: GPO, 1862.

[3] As noted the Census was for time-frame June 1, 1849-June 1, 1850. We use 575 noted for Louisiana and add 102 yellow fever deaths noted in New Orleans from July-Oct by Keating, Sternberg, and the U.S. Marine Hospital Svc.

[4] In that we show 125 yellow fever deaths in Charleston, SC, Aug-Nov, 1849, in a separate document, we presume the 124 deaths noted by the Census were all during 1849.