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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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October 21, 2025
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 […]
September 15, 1821
October 19, 2025
October 19, 2025

Ireland: Indictment Against News Publisher; Arrests in Kilkenny, White Cholera.

IRELAND.DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill […]
June 30, 1833
June 26, 2025
June 26, 2025

Influenza Has Struck Bakerton

The influenza has struck Bakerton and work at the lime plant there has been considerably interfered with on account of so much sickness among the employees and their families. There has been one death from the […]
October 17, 1918
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025

Smallpox; Bakerton & Jeff. Co.

p. 998-999 West Virginia– Jefferson County and Vicinity. Asst. Surg. Hasseltine, of the Public Health Service, detailed to confer with the Jefferson County (W. Va.) Board of Health concerning the recent occurrence of smallpox in that […]
May 23, 1913
January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 17.– Reports reach here of smallpox in the county, in the suburbs of Charlestown and at Bakerton, confined to the colored people. Raleigh Hauser [Houser], general manager […]
January 18, 1913
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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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