Posted By:	Mary C
	Email:
	Subject:	Epidemics related to the South 1861-1878
	Post Date:	July 19, 2006 at 13:27:36
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ms/messages/17580.html
	Forum:	Mississippi Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ms/

Following much research, located this data at the site cited at the end of this info. Hope it is helpful. ** 1861-1865: Epidemics of dysentery, typhoid fever, hepatitis, malaria, smallpox, measles, and venereal diseases. More than three times as many soldiers died of infectious disease than died of battle wounds. 1861-1865: North America Typhoid 187,000 dead. This is also period of The Civil War. 1862: Florida Scarlet Fever. 1863: New Orleans, LA Yellow Fever. 1865-1873: Philadelphia, PA, New York, Boston, MA & New Orleans, LA Smallpox Same period of time, in Washington DC, Baltimore, MD, Memphis, TN Cholera & a series of recurring epidemics of Typhus, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever. 1873-1875: North America & Europe Influenza. 1873: Nebraska Diphtheria. 1877: Los Angeles, CA Smallpox. 1878: New Orleans, LA & Memphis, TN Yellow Fever Last Great Epidemic of Yellow Fever. More than 5,000 fatalities & 25,000 in "crazed flight" in Memphis. 13,000 die in the lower Mississippi Valley. Source: <http://genealogyinc.com/encyclopedia.html>