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The epidemic summer : list of interments in all the cemeteries of New Orleans, from the first of May to the first of November, 1853, together with names and ages of deceased, places of nativity, causes of deaths, date of interment and name of cemetery in which interred; alphabetically arranged to which are added a review of the yellow fever, its causes, etc, and an interesting and useful ...
Dec 8, 2023 · During a yellow fever epidemic in Galveston in 1853, approximately 60 percent of the 5,000 residents became sick and 523 persons died. There were 175 deaths from yellow fever in Houston during 1858. During Galveston's last yellow fever epidemic in 1867, thousands were afflicted and approximately 725 residents had died by early September.
History of the yellow fever in New Orleans, during the summer of 1853: with sketches of the scenes of horror which occurred during the epidemic : descriptions and beautiful illustrations of Charity Hospital and the public cemeteries, and especially of Potter's Field, and the method of burying the dead in Cypress swamp : to which is added the names of all persons who contributed to the funds of ...
A boy from an Irish immigrant family, the Harrises, shown suffering from yellow fever in New Orleans in 1855. During the city’s yellow fever epidemic of 1853, nativists charged that Irish and German immigrants, who they described as living in squalor, represented a public health scourge. Courtesy Louisiana State Museum.
1853 marked the peak of the yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans. In that year alone, 7,790 people perished. Yellow fever was so feared that it was often called the American Plague.'. In 1853 relatively little was known about the transmission cycle of the disease or how it was spread. Physicians did not know if it was infectious, yet instead of ...
Mar 28, 2020 · The yellow fever virus assaulted New Orleans in waves: as one crashed down, the impact receded, a few years on another hit with lethal force. The first epidemic, in 1796, killed 638 people out of ...
Oct 31, 2018 · In epidemic years, the yellow fever virus could wipe out up to 10 percent of the city's population. It was spread by mosquitoes. And in the summer of 1853, it killed nearly 8,000 people.
