2359–8,830

lornajarrettblanchard January 1, 1875

Document created by Wayne Blanchard Nov 2019; revised Dec 2019 for website: Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-Of-Life Events. https://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

–8,830 Blanchard tally of four data points noted below. (National scope; only data we see.)

Illinois, Chicago ( 880)

–880 Chicago. City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. 1915, p. 86.

Michigan (1,419)

–1,479 State of MI: Ninth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return…1875. 1881, 246.

–1,479 Michigan Secretary of State. Sixteenth Annual Report…for the Year 1882. p. 264.

New York City (4,172)

–4,172 Annual Report of Dept. of Health of the City of New York for Years 1911-1912., p. 232.

Pennsylvania, Philly (2,359)

–2,359 Philadelphia. Jones. Contagious and Infectious Diseases. 1884, p. 196.[1]

–2,359 Philadelphia. City of Philadelphia. Annual Report (V. III), 1907, p. 110.[2]

Narrative Information — Michigan

“In each of the years 1873, 1874, and 1875, Consumption, Pneumonia, and Typhoid Fever are, in this order, the first three diseases in the list of the fifteen principal causes of death…” (p. 246.)

[According to Table XVIII, this was 12.34 percent of deaths from all causes in 1875.]

[In 1875 there were 17,289 [adjusted] deaths in the State (p. xi).]

Sources

Board of Health. Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Department of Health of The City of New York for the Year Ending December 31, 1912. NYC: 1913. Google preview accessed 11-26-2019: https://books.google.com/books?id=XqMGqwcyOp8C&ppis=_e&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=1871&f=true

City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium: Its History and Provisions. Chicago: 1915. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=5hhAAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

City of Philadelphia. First Annual Message of John E. Reyburn, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of the Departments of Public Health and Charities, Supplies, Public Education, Law, City Controller, City Treasurer, Commissioners of the Sinking Funds, Receiver of Taxes, and Board of Revision of Taxes for the Year Ending December 31, 1907 (Vol. III). Philadelphia: Dunlap Printing Co., 1908. Google digitized. Assessed 12-5-2012: http://books.google.com/books?id=0ihNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jones, Joseph, M.D., President of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana. Contagious and Infectious Diseases, Measures for Their Prevention and Arrest. Small Pox (Variola); Modified Small Pos (Varioloid); Chicken Pox (Varicella); Cow Pox (Variola Vaccinal): Vaccination, Spurious Vaccination Illustrated by Eight Colored Plates (Circular No. 2, Prepared for the Guidance of the Quarantine Officers and Sanitary Inspectors of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana.). Baton Rouge: Leon Jastremski, State Printer, 1884. Accessed 2-12-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=3VTboPycbBgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

State of Michigan, Superintendent of Vital Statistics. “Vital Statistics of Michigan,

1875.” Ninth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Michigan for the Year 1875. Lansing, W. S. George & Co., 1881. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=dYyoAEYyeDoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Table: “Total Deaths from Consumption, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever and Small-pox in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during Twenty-one Years–1862-1882.

[2] Table entitled “Deaths from Consumption of Lungs, from 1862 to 1907, inclusive, by Months.”