Research Topic

Epidemics

Cholera and other epidemics and health concerns in and around Harpers Ferry and Jefferson County, WV, chronicling the region’s public health history.

This topic appears in 80 indexed records between 1821 and 1919.
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1919 Latest Record
Harpers Ferry Strongest Location
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July 18, 2023
July 18, 2023

Clean your Cellar

Clean Your Cellar. — Every cellar in this town should be cleaned out and thoroughly aired. Much sickness is caused from the neglect of not giving cellars an early spring cleaning. The damp, mould, poisonous air […]
May 19, 1883
June 10, 2026
June 10, 2026

Mortality Among Freedmen

The Richmond Enquirer says.“We are informed by physicians that the mortality among negroes is terrible, far exceeding the proportion that prevailed during the existence of slavery, and that the producing causes are filth, neglect and over […]
April 19, 1866
December 11, 2020
December 11, 2020

The Cholera in Martinsburg

The sad duty is imposed upon us of announcing to our readers, says the Martinsburg Gazette, of the 25th inst, that this dreadful disease again made its appearance among us on Tuesday of last week. Why […]
October 28, 1854
June 16, 2024
June 16, 2024

Health of Harpers Ferry

HEALTH OF HARPER’S FERRY.– The following note, from a correspondent at Harper’s Ferry, gives the latest intelligence of the health of that place, and we are gratified to learn that no new cases of cholera have […]
September 14, 1850
June 16, 2024
June 16, 2024

Cholera in South Bolivar

THE CHOLERA NEAR HARPER’S FERRY.– The Charlestown Spirit of Jefferson, of yesterday, has the following in reference to the re-appearance of the cholera in the neighborhood of Harper’s Ferry: Without any apparent local causes, and without […]
September 11, 1850
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 34 records
1850s 13 records
1910s 12 records
1820s 6 records
1890s 4 records
1880s 3 records

Frequently Associated Families

These surnames most commonly appear alongside the topic "Epidemics" across historical collections.

Carroll
3 records
Moler
3 records
Houser
3 records
Miller
3 records
Flanagan
3 records
Bennett
2 records
Entler
2 records
Griggs
2 records
Harper
2 records
Markle
2 records
Shutt
2 records
Turner
2 records
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