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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August 3, 2023

Cholera in Jefferson County, Va.

Extract of a letter dated Jefferson County, Va. Sept. 1. I am extremely sorry to inform you, that the Cholera has made its appearance in this neighborhood. We had a case on the mountain, between this […]
August 3, 2023

Cholera Surrounding Harpers Ferry

THE CHOLERA.Health of the City.– The deaths in this city last week were only SEVENTEEN, one of which was of malignant Cholera.– Boston Gaz.— In another column we publish the weekly report, which has been so […]
December 11, 2020

Solely For Your Own Family, Cholera

The following Rules, in reference to the Cholera, are given by an eminent physician of Philadelphia, to his friend in this place. SOLELY FOR YOUR OWN FAMILY USE.In the event of the appearance of the New […]
December 11, 2020

Lawrence Murphy, death.

In this town [Charles Town], on Friday morning last, of an illness of 36 hours, Mr. Lawrence Murphy, a native of Ireland, aged about 27 years. He was a stranger here, and had been engaged upon […]
August 2, 2023

Cholera; Irish Laborers suffering in Harpers Ferry

THE CHOLERA. In Baltimore the deaths by cholera from the 23d to the 30th ult, inclusive, were 99. The disease does not excite any alarm, and indeed there is no perceptible change in the pursuits of […]
December 11, 2020

Treatment of Cholera

Treatment of Cholera.— Extract of a letter received from one of the first surgeons at New Castle, and the most successful in the treatment of Cholera. “When the patient is cold, and the pulse at the […]
December 11, 2020

Cholera ravages Ireland

The Cholera continued its ravages in Ireland. New cases on the 9th, 98, deaths 38. Cork, new Cases 76, deaths 14. In London the disease was nearly extinct.
December 11, 2020

Cholera in Ireland

Liverpool, May 1. — In Ireland, and especially in the capital, the disease appears to be making considerable progress. On Friday 112 new cases were announced in Dublin, and the deaths from the commencement of the […]
May 23, 2020

Relief to the Irish

The subscription in Liverpool to relieve the distressed in Ireland, amounted, on the 11th of June, to 13116 14s. Sir James Mackintosh has obtained a pledge from the House of Commons “that it would take into […]
October 21, 2025

Shepherdstown Deaths From Disease

From Shepherdstown, in Virginia, we are sorry to learn, through the medium of the newspaper printed there, that the sickness, at this late period of the season, in that town, and still more in the neighborhood, […]
October 21, 2025

Eastern Jefferson County Illnesses

SHEPHERDSTOWN, OCT. 3– The sickness in this Town, at the present time, exceeds any thing ever known in this place within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There is scarcely a family that has not some […]
October 21, 2025

Shepherdstown, Harpers Ferry Pestilence; Crops & Drought

SHEPHERDSTOWN, VA. SEPT. 12– We understand by a gentleman directly from Harper’s Ferry, that the disease which has been so malignant at that place, continues to rage with unabating violence. Never was it known to have […]
October 21, 2025

Sickness Ravages Harpers Ferry

As certainly as one season of the year is less favorable to health than another, we must expect, during the present month, to hear of much sickness and increased mortality. Of one who is taken sick […]
November 18, 2025

O’Donovan; Chemist

HARPERS FERRY, (Vir.) July 17.Medical Discovery.– Doctor T. C. Smith, of Dublin, lately obtained 5,800 premium from the English Parliament for the undermentioned recipe for Typhus malignant Fevers. Six drachms of powdered nitre, six drachms of […]
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