1794 — Yellow Fever epidemics, Baltimore MD (200-364); New Haven, CT (64) –264-424

–264-296 Blanchard tally from breakouts below.

— 64 New Haven, CT. Arnebeck. A Short History of Yellow Fever in the US. 2008, 2016.
— 64 “ Kohn. Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence… 2001, p. 236.

–360 Baltimore, MD Cordell. The Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899. 1903, 35
–200 “ Arnebeck. A Short History of Yellow Fever in the US. 2008, 2016.

Narrative Information

Arnebeck: “…in 1794 Baltimore was struck with an epidemic. City officials tried to keep news of the epidemic out of the newspaper or ‘spin’ it as just a common fever, but other cities quarantined Baltimore, and a young student of Rush’s sent out letters describing all the characteristic symptoms of yellow fever. His memoir of the epidemic provides one of the best collection of case studies of yellow fever victims at that period. At the same time, New Haven, Connecticut, had an epidemic. Around 200 people died in Baltimore and 64 in New Haven but the nation was served notice that the great epidemic of 1793 might not be a quirk.

Sources

Arnebeck, Bob. A Short History of Yellow Fever in the US. 1-30-2008 update and 8-7-2016. Accessed 3-14-2021 at: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/a-short-history-of-yellow-fever-in-the-us-89760/

Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, M.D. The Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Baltimore: Press of Williams & Wilkins Co. for the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1903. Google digitized. Accessed 1-15-2015 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=Wx8SAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Kohn, George Childs (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence From Ancient Times to the Present (Revised Edition). NY: Checkmark Books, 2001.