Epidemics

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Epidemics

This topic appears in 73 indexed records between 1821 and 1919.
73 Indexed Records
1821 Earliest Record
1919 Latest Record
Harpers Ferry Strongest Location
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December 11, 2020

Cholera, Ravages Again.

The Cholera.— This desolating scourge, we are sorry to say, appears to be augmenting its ravages in our county. Since our last publication, several valuable citizens of Shepherdstown have fallen victims to the malignant disease. Many […]
December 11, 2020

Wheldon, Cholera or Fable?

[COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Gallaher: — We have observed in the “Intelligencer and Alexandria Gazette,” of this week, a paragraph extracted from the “Argus,” printed in Easton, Pa., detailing a “remarkable circumstance,” based on the high authority of […]
December 10, 2020

Progress of the Cholera

HAGERSTOWN, July 4The cholera is again on the increase along the line of the canal, in the neighborhood of Williamsport. On Tuesday, we learn that three deaths occurred below, six above, and one in the town, […]
December 10, 2020

Cholera on Canal Line

From the Hagerstown Torch Light of Thursday.A few cases of cholera have occurred during the last week, along the line of the canal, above and below Williamsport. We have head of three confirmed cases, which resulted […]
October 19, 2025

Ireland: Indictment Against News Publisher; Arrests in Kilkenny, White Cholera.

IRELAND.DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill […]
December 11, 2020

Cholera in Ireland.

“Never” says a letter from Limerick of the 14th of March, “was there anything like the state of the surrounding country. The Cholera has spread all around. The Rev. Mr. Noonan, Curate of Knockany, was here […]
August 4, 2023

Virginia; Cholera Along the Canal

THE CHOLERA A deep feeling of melancholy came over us, a few days ago, as we passed along the turnpike between this place and Harper’s Ferry. In one part of the road, where, six weeks since, […]
December 11, 2020

Hagerstown ravaged, Cholera.

THE CHOLERA.The angel of death has been busy among us during the past week. The pestilence that “walketh in darkness and wasteth in noon-day,” has left sad mementoes of its visitation. The cholera has numbered several […]
December 10, 2020

Halltown Cholera Death

No new case of Cholera has occured in town for more than two weeks— the laborer from Halltown, who brought the disease with him, is dead— and we can again pronounce our village almost entirely free […]
December 11, 2020

Halltown Workmen Death

On the same day [Saturday last], in this town, Mr. John Still, one of the workmen from Halltown, who had recovered from cholera, but whose disease assumed a typhoid character.
August 4, 2023

Seven Deaths In One Day; Harpers Ferry

CHOLERA IN AMERICANew York, Sept. 9. — In this city the deaths by cholera, during the week ending on Saturday, were 138, which is 40 less than occurred the preceding week, though the population of the […]
December 11, 2020

Halltown Cholera

AWFUL MORTALITY.It becomes our duty this day to make a most appalling record of “Death’s Doings,” in our neighborhood. The desolating malady which has swept over our country, has no where been more fatal in its […]
December 11, 2020

Cholera in Halltown

Since our last paper, two deaths have occurred from Cholera— one in town, and the other in the vicinity. As we have noted every case, we hope our good friends abroad, who seem so careful of […]
December 11, 2020

Views on Cholera.

FOR THE VIRGINIA FREE PRESS.CHOLERA. Mr. Gallaher— After what has been written by the ablest medical men of this country and Europe, it may be deemed imparticent in me thus to obtrude myself upon the attention […]
December 10, 2020

Cholera

Many attempts have been made to give some rational explanation of the cause of pestilential cholera. I will not pretend to say that I can. My object is simply to give a frank expression of my […]
December 11, 2020

Jeff Co. Cholera Appears

We are well aware of the excitement which the occurrence of a few cases of Cholera will ere-[?]te in our neighborhood, and of the thousand rumors likely to grow out of them, and therefore feel it […]
November 7, 2023

Obit: John Lamon

On Tuesday last, in the 52d year of his age, of the prevailing epidemic, Mr. JOHN LAMON, of this place. The deceased had been laboring under general debility for some months, but was attending to his […]
August 3, 2023

Workmen Fleeing Harpers Ferry

CHOLERA INTELLIGENCE.MARYLAND.– Baltimore, Sept. 10: The Board of Health report for the 24 hours ending at 10 o’clock, 23 deaths by cholera–eleven white and twelve colored persons: during the week the total number of deaths by […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 28 records
1850s 13 records
1910s 12 records
1820s 6 records
1890s 4 records
1880s 3 records