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
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July 20, 2018
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Bakerton Scarlet Fever Scare; Kretzer boy dies.

A six-year-old son of George Kretzer, living at Flanagan’s wharf, near Bakerton, died last Monday after a brief illness from malignant scarlet fever, and was buried on Tuesday. It is said that scarlet fever exists in […]
July 15, 1915
July 20, 2018
July 20, 2018

Items from Bakerton.

Items From Bakerton. I see through your columns news from other places, and I thought that I would give you some from our little town. Bakerton is growing and is now about a mile long. It […]
November 19, 1914
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July 20, 2018

The Smallpox Scare (Quarantine Against Bakerton)

The Smallpox Scare. The County Board of Health reports that there are seven well-defined cases of smallpox at Bakerton and one at Kearneysville. There is no case of smallpox, we are informed, at or in the […]
January 23, 1913
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June 22, 2018

Mrs. J. G. Flanagan ill with Malarial Fever

Mrs. F. P. Miller and her son Ross, of Mason & Dixon, spent last week with her sister, Mrs. J. G. Flanagan, of Bakerton, who has been ill with malarial fever.
October 9, 1902
June 22, 2018
June 22, 2018

Moler and other Equine Bakerton Residents Ill

Wm. J. Moler, of Bakerton, lost a valuable horse a few days ago from some unknown disease. Other horses in the same neighborhood are reported to be sick.
June 29, 1899
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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
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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