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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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Bentonville Smallpox Traced to Bakerton

Smallpox has broken out in the neighborhood of Bentonville, Warren county, Va., fifteen miles north of Luray. Several men returned to that community from Bakerton, W. Va., where smallpox has been epidemic.
February 3, 1913
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
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

The Cholera at Harper’s Ferry

The Cholera at Harper’s Ferry. We regret to learn that the cholera has commenced at Harper’s Ferry again with increased violence, and that a considerable number of deaths have taken place during the past two days. […]
August 9, 1850
June 16, 2024
June 16, 2024

The Cholera — Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg, &c.

THE CHOLERA– Harper’s Ferry, Martinsburg, &c. — There is much less alarm now in Jefferson county, Va., in regard to the cholera, it having greatly subsided, and the Charlestown Free Press of yesterday, says: The health […]
August 21, 1850
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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
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