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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
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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.
October 11, 1832
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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 […]
October 4, 1832
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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 […]
September 13, 1832
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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 […]
September 6, 1832
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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.
June 21, 1832
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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
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Bennett
2 records
Entler
2 records
Griggs
2 records
Harper
2 records
Markle
2 records
Shutt
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Turner
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