Epidemics from 1657 to 1918

YEAR		ILLINESS
1657		Boston Measles
1687		Boston Measles
1690		New York, Yellow Fever
1713		Boston Measles
1729		Boston Measles
1732-3		Worldwide Influenza
1738		South Carolina Smallpox
1739		Boston Measles
1747		CT., NY., PA., S.C., Measles
1759		North America (areas inhabited by white people) Measles
1760		North American & West Indies Influenza
1772		North American Measles
1775		North American Measles
1775-6		Workdwide Influenza (One of the worst epidemics)
1783		Dover, De., Bilious Disorder (extremely fatel)
1788		Philadelphia and New York Measles
1793		Vermont, a "Putrid" Fever and Influenza
1793		Philadelphia, Yellow Fever (One of the worst epidemics)
1793		Harrisburg, Pa., Unknown (Many unexplained deaths)
1793		Middletown, Pa., Unknown (Many unexplained deaths)
1794		Virginia Influenza (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks)
1794		Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow Fever
1796-7		Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow Fever
1798		Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow Fever (One of the worst)
1803		New York Yellow Fever
1820-3		Nationwide Fever (Starts at Schuylkill River and spreads)
1831-2		Nationwide Asiatic Cholera (Brought by English emigrants)
1832		New York City and other major cities, Cholera
1833		Columbus, Ohio, Cholera
1834		New York City, Cholera
1837		Philadelphia, Typhus
1841		Nationwide Yellow Fever (Especially severe in the south)
1847		New Orleans, Yellow Fever
1847-8		Worldwide Influenza
1848-9		North American Cholera
1849		New York, Cholera
1850		Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850-1		North American Influenza
1851		Coles Co, Ill., The great Plains and Missouri, Cholera
1852		Nationwide Yellow Fever (New Orleans, 8000 die in summer)
1855		Nationwide Yellow Fever
1857-9		Worldwide Influenza (One of the largerst epidemics)
1860-1		Pennsylvania, Smallpox
1865-73		Philadelphia, N. Y., Boston, New Orleans, Smallpox, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington D.C., Cholera and a series of recurring epidemics of Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever
1878		New Orleans Yellow Fever ( Last greqt Epidemic)
1885		Plymouth, Pa., Typhoid
1886		Jacksonville, Florida, Yellow Fever
1918		Influenza (Worldwide more people were hospitalized in WW1 from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% dewath rate in some camps.