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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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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 […]
September 27, 1832
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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
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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 […]
June 7, 1832
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Cholera and Limestone Water.

A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette takes ground against the theory that cholera is more prevalent in limestone districts than elsewhere, he says: Wherever water is used from wells dug through blue clay or soapstone, the […]
August 20, 1850
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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 […]
September 27, 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
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Moler
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Houser
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Miller
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Flanagan
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Bennett
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Entler
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Griggs
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Harper
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Markle
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Shutt
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Turner
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