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Congestive Chill - A common name for malaria in the 19th century. The word “congestive” stemmed from the tendency for patients to experience an accumulation of blood in the organs and away from the extremities ( Eclectic Medical Journal, 1861). Consumption - Another name for tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs.
Feb 2, 2022 · Malaria. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bites. Common symptoms of the disease are fever, tiredness, vomiting, headache and in severe cases, yellow skin, seizures, and death. Cases of malaria were much more prominent in the South in the 18th and 19th centuries with the warmer, wetter climates that ...
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What were the most common diseases in the 19th century? In the 19th century, several diseases were prevalent and had a significant impact on public health. Some of the most common diseases during this time included: 1. Tuberculosis (TB): TB was a major health concern in the 19th century, causing widespread illness and death. The disease ...
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In 1800, the population of the United States was approximately 5.3 million people, and the nation’s borders encompassed approximately 864 thousand square miles. Most of the population was clustered along the Atlantic coast with the center of population of the United States located just west of Baltimore (Atack and Passel 1994, p. 244). No region of...
US Army Morbidity Data, 1830s
Table 7.5 presents data on malaria morbidity rates for American soldiers in the 1830s. At the time, malaria was known under a variety of names, such as “autumnal, bilious, intermittent, remittent, congestive, miasmatic, malarial, marsh, malignant, chill-fever, ague, fever and ague, dumb ague, and lastly the Fever” (Drake [1850, 1854] 1964, p. 703). The data in table 7.5 are for military posts of the United States Army in coastal areas and the interior of North America; the data are reported b...
Census Mortality Data, 1850 to 1900
United States Census data on the number of deaths by specific causes in each state for the years 1850 to 1900 provide further evidence of the spread of infectious diseases during the nineteenth century. From these data, we calculated cause-specific mortality rates for the entire population for nearly two dozen major infectious diseases for the 1850 to 1900 census years for each state for which data exist. We also calculated mortality rates for deaths from all causes for (1) the entire populat...
The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Infants and Young Children in the Nineteenth Century
The most susceptible elements of a population to infectious diseases are typically infants and young children. Infants who have just been weaned or are being weaned are particularly susceptible. For nursing infants, mother’s milk provides partial protection from infection for (at least) two reasons. The first is that breast milk directly provides antibodies to the infant (a breast-fed baby is less likely to be infected by diseases than is a non–breast-fed baby). The second reason is that brea...
The increasing efficiency of transportation distorts nineteenth-century data that are used to measure living standards. In 1800, internal transport in the United States depended on natural waterways and animal power. By 1860, railroads, canals, and streetcars economized on the use of animal power in transport. Per unit of economic output there was ...
In this telegram from Enterprise, Florida, to Governor Edward Perry, officials in Volusia County express both the deadliness of the yellow fever outbreak of 1888 and the extreme measures local authorities are pursuing to contain the spread. In confirming two deaths and 12 cases, the writer also states that the site of the infection has been ...
An 1802 cartoon of Edward Jenner 's cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.
Joseph Yates Porter, M.D. served as Florida’s first State Health Officer from the beginning of the State Board of Health in 1889 to 1917. His 28 years as State Health Officer were only surpassed by the 29 years of Wilson T. Sowder, M.D., who served as State Health Officer from 1945 to 1974. These are two of the leading icons in the history of ...
