1852 — Smallpox, Nevada City, CA natives, NYC (407-516), Philadelphia (427) –943-1,052

–943-1,052 Blanchard tally of locality breakouts below.

CA, Nevada City area ( ~100)
–~100 Cook. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization (4). 1976, p275.

Chicago ( 9)
–9 US National Board of Health. Annual Report of…1883. 1884, p. 134.

New York City (407-516)
–516 Condran. “Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City.” P. 31 in Rosner.
–407 Jones. Contagious and Infectious Diseases. 1884, p. 193.

Philadelphia ( 427)
— 427 City of Philadelphia. First Annual Message…Mayor of…Philadelphia… 1908, p. 99.
— 427 Geffen. “Industrial Development…,” Philadelphia: A 300 Year History. 1982, p. 318.
— 427 Henry, F. P. Standard History of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia. 1897, 277.

Narrative Information

Cook: “The same year [1852], smallpox struck around Nevada City and the ‘mortality is considerable.’ If there were 500 Indians in the vicinity and the ‘considerable’ mortality amounted to 20 per cent (a reasonable value for a smallpox epidemic), 100 persons perished.”

Sources

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

Condran, Gretchen A. “Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City.” Pp. 27-41 in
Rosner, David (Ed.). Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. Rutgers University Press, 1991, 236 pages. Partially digitized by Google. Accessed 3-29-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=o34QxI6lHwAC&pg=PA70&dq=1916+Polio+Epidemic&ei=Cy5DSZWvMIXAMpqalOYN#PPP7,M1

Cook, Sherburne Friend. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization, Part 4, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976. Partially Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=AXgmN-PIrywC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Geffen, Elizabeth M. “Industrial Development and Social Crisis 1841-1854,” in Philadelphia: A 300 Year History. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982. Accessed 12-2-2012 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=8OAUwyeYjM8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Henry, Frederick P. (ed.). Standard History of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia. Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, 1897. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMI0AQAAMAAJ&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

United States National Board of Health. Annual Report of the National Board of Health, 1883. Washington, DC: GPO, 1884. Digitized by Google at: http://books.google.com/books?id=MtuxEGC1Vp4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true