1853 — Cholera, New Orleans, LA (554-585); Choctaw on Arkansas River, OK/14 — 568-599
–568-599 Blanchard tally based on breakouts below (for: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com )
Louisiana (554-585)
–585 New Orleans. Peters. “General History of the Disease…to 1885,” in Wendt, 1885, p. 30.
–554 Out of 15,787 total deaths and population of 154,132. Barton, 1857.[1]
–554 Sanitary Commission of New Orleans. Report of the Sanitary Commission… 1854, p. 465.
Oklahoma ( 14)
–14 Arkansas River, Choctaw.[2]
Narrative Information:
WHO: “Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae… Cholera is an extremely virulent disease that can cause severe acute watery diarrhoea with severe dehydration. It takes between 12 hours and 5 days for a person to show symptoms after ingesting contaminated food or water. Cholera affects both children and adults and can kill within hours if untreated.
“Most people infected with Vibrio cholerae do not develop any symptoms, although the bacteria are present in their faeces for 1-10 days after infection and are shed back into the environment, potentially infecting other people.
“Cholera is often predictable, preventable and can ultimately be eliminated where access to clean water and sanitation facilities, and satisfactory hygiene conditions are ensured and sustained for the whole population.” (World Health Organization. Cholera (webpage). Accessed 11-12-2019.)
Sources
Barton, Edward H., MD. The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and other Cities in America (Third Edition, with a Supplement). New York: H. Bailliere; London and Paris, 1857. Google preview accessed 3-14-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=yEJZDrCO-ZkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Foreman, Grant. The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934. Accessed 4-22-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=-Dp4qxWDOMUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Peters, John C. “General History of the Disease and the Principal Epidemics up to 1885,” Section I in Wendt, Edmund Charles (Ed.). A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera. NY: William Wood and Co., 1885. Digitized by Google at: http://books.google.com/books?id=bk4gp1QXHM4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Sanitary Commission of New Orleans. Report of the Sanitary Commission to His Honor J. L. Lewis, Mayor of the City of New Orleans. New Orleans: By Authority of the City Council of New Orleans, 1854. Google preview accessed 3-5-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=_EQJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
World Health Organization. Cholera (webpage). Accessed 11-12-2019 at: https://www.who.int/health-topics/cholera#tab=tab_1
[1] “Comparative Table [Yellow Fever and Cholera]. Estimate of the Salubrity of New Orleans, as affected by her Epidemics. 1st — of Yellow Fever.”
[2] “The 383 Choctaw immigrants who came in 1853 brought cholera with them and fourteen deaths occurred on Arkansas River…” In that previous material mostly concerned activity in and around Wheelock, OK, and in that the Salt Fork of the Arkansas is mostly in Oklahoma (also in Kansas to the north), it appears these deaths were in the then Oklahoma Indian Territory. But, it is possible the deaths occurred in Arkansas, where the river empties into the Mississippi.