Epidemics
| 1731 | Smallpox: Joppa, Baltimore County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 650 |
| 1747-1748 | Smallpox: Cecil County SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 12 |
| 1747-1748 | Smallpox: Cecil County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 651 |
| 1756/05 | Spotted Fever (typhus?): Maryland SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1756/05 | Spotted Fever (typhus?): Maryland SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 653 |
| 1757 | Smallpox: Annapolis legislature meets in Baltimore as a result SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 653 |
| 1757 | Malignant fever (typhus?): Maryland SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 653 |
| 1757 | Malignant fever (typhus?): Maryland SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1759 | Smallpox: Bladensburg SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1760 | Smallpox: Cecil County SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1760 | Smallpox: Cecil County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 654 |
| 1762 | Smallpox: Maryland SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1764 | Malignant fever: Maryland; Talbot County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 654 |
| 1764 | Malignant fever: Maryland; Talbot County SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1764-1765 | Smallpox: Maryland SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1764-1765 | Smallpox: Maryland SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 654 |
| 1766 | Smallpox: Joppa, Baltimore County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 655 |
| 1775 | Smallpox: Queenstown, Queen Anne County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 657 |
| 1776 | Smallpox: Port Tobacco, Charles County SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 658 |
| 1784 | Scarlet Fever: Maryland SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 15 |
| 1784 | Scarlet Fever: Maryland SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 662 |
| 1789 | Influenza: SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 16 |
| 1789 | Influenza: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 664 |
| 1794 | Dysentery: SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 18 |
| 1794 | Dysentery: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 667 |
| 1794 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 667 |
| 1794 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 18 |
| 1794/08 | Bilious Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Also in Philadelphia SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 19 |
| 1794/08 | Bilious Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Also in Philadelphia SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 667 |
| 1795/05 | Dysentery: Baltimore SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 19 |
| 1795/05 | Dysentery: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 668 |
| 1797 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 669 |
| 1797 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 20 |
| 1797/08 | Bilious Remittent Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 20 |
| 1797/08 | Bilious Remittent Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 669 |
| 1798 | “a new and malignant fever prevails in the western part of the State”: Western Maryland SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 670 |
| 1799 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, Cecil , Harford, Charles and Dorchester Counties Also in Mifflin County, PA SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 671 |
| 1799 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, Cecil , Harford, Charles and Dorchester Counties Also in Mifflin County, PA SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 21 |
| 1800 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Spreads to West Baltimore in September. Total deaths: 1197 (978 adults, 219 Children) SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 672 |
| 1800 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Spreads to West Baltimore in September. Total deaths: 1197 (978 adults, 219 Children) SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 21 |
| 1802 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 673 |
| 1804 | Bilious Fever: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 674 |
| 1805 | Malignant Bilious Fever: Elkton 80 sick at a time SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 675 |
| 1807 | Influenza: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 675 |
| 1808 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Prevails in Pitt Street in most malignant form. “A prompt removal of inhabitants by the advice of Dr. John Coulter, prevents its extension from this situation” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 676 |
| 1809 | Smallpox: Sharpsburg 17 deaths “due to use of spurious virus” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 677 |
| 1810 | Smallpox: Baltimore “soon extinguished by vaccination through the efforts of Dr. James Smith and other” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 677 |
| 1811 | Smallpox and Spotted Fever: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 677 |
| 1811 | Cholera Infantum: Baltimore 90 deaths in August SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 678 |
| 1811/10-1812/04 | Smallpox: 135 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 678 |
| 1812 | Smallpox: Calvert County “Dr. James Smith extinguishes a threatened epidemic” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 678 |
| 1813 | Epidemic fever: Talbot & Queen Anne’s Counties winter and spring SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 679 |
| 1815/03 | Typhus: Charles and St. Mary’s Counties SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 680 |
| 1815/03 | Typhus: Charles and St. Mary’s Counties SOURCE: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC) March 8, 1815, March 20, 1815, and March 30, 1815. |
| 1816 | Smallpox: Dorchester & Queen Anne’s Counties “[Smallpox] prevails in Dorchester and Queen Anne’s Counties, where Drs. Robert Goldsborough, J.K. Harper and J. D. Emory offer to vaccinate the poor gratuitously and by their zeal overcome the public prejudice against it” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 681 |
| 1816 | Smallpox: Baltimore “Threatened smallpox epidemic at Baltimore stamped out by Dr. James Smith and others” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 681 |
| 1817 | Smallpox: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 683 |
| 1819 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point 2287 deaths; epidemic ends in October SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 685 |
| 1821 | Smallpox: Baltimore epidemic stamped out by vaccination SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 686 |
| 1821 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 686 |
| 1832/07 | Cholera: Baltimore Quarantine law passed July 7; disease not recognized until August 4; last case November 4. 3572 deaths in city for the year of which 853 were from cholera and 79 from smallpox SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 692 |
| 1834 | Smallpox: Baltimore 71 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 693 |
| 1837 | Smallpox: Baltimore 71 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 695 |
| 1837 | Smallpox: Baltimore 52 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 695 |
| 1845 | Smallpox: Baltimore 110 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 699 |
| 1846 | Smallpox: Baltimore 115 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 699 |
| 1847 | Smallpox: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 700 |
| 1848 | Consumption: Baltimore Health of the City — There is not at the present time, and we may safely say at all times, a city in the Union more healthy, in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, than Baltimore. During the past week the number of deaths was but 62, and of these 20 were under two years of age. Consumption, we observe, continues to claim a larger share of victims than any of the other ills that flesh is heir to, there being no less than eleven, or nearly one-fifth of the whole number, carried off by this disease. SOURCE: Sun (Baltimore) 31 Oct. 1848 |
| 1849 | Typhus: Baltimore Almshouse 83 cases at Almshouse and 39 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 701 |
| 1849 | Cholera: Baltimore Only 4 cases in city outside of Baltimore Almshouse SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 701 |
| 1849 | Cholera: Baltimore Almshouse Of 669 inmates, 155 are attacked and 86 die. 50% of male inmates take ill while only 4% of female inmates are ill SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 701 |
| 1851 | Smallpos: Baltimore 104 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 702 |
| 1852 | Measles: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 702 |
| 1853 | Scarlet Fever: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 703 |
| 1853/05 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point 18 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 703 |
| 1853/05 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point 18 deaths SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 40 |
| 1854 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Wills, Block, Philpot Streets and Canton Avenue. 40 cases with 20 deaths SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 40 |
| 1854 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Wills, Block, Philpot Streets and Canton Avenue. 40 cases with 20 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 703 |
| 1854 | Cholera: Baltimore County Confined to a few houses along Frederick Road outside the city limits SOURCE: Board of Health, Annual Report, 1854 |
| 1854 | Smallpox: Baltimore 26 deaths in the city and 95 at the Marine Hospital SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 703 |
| 1854 | Yellow Fever: Baltimore, at Fell’s Point Wills, Block, Philpot Streets and Canton Avenue. 40 cases with 20 deaths SOURCE: Board of Health, Annual Report, 1854 |
| 1855 | Smallpox: Maryland SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 652 |
| 1855 | Smallpox: Maryland SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 12 |
| 1856/11-1856/12 | Smallpox & Dysentery: Maryland “confined to the colored race” SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 13 |
| 1856/11-1856/12 | Smallpox & Dysentery: Maryland “confined to the colored race” SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 653 |
| 1857 | Scarlet Fever: SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 41 |
| 1857 | Scarlet Fever: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 705 |
| 1857 | Measles: SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 7050 |
| 1857 | Measles: SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 41 |
| 1858 | Smallpox: Baltimore 310 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 705 |
| 1861 | Smallpox: Baltimore 225 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 706 |
| 1863 | Smallpox: Baltimore SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 42 |
| 1863 | Smallpox: Baltimore SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 707 |
| 1864 | Smallpox: Baltimore 436 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 707 |
| 1866 | Cholera: Baltimore First case in June. 62 deaths SOURCE: Quinan, Medical Annals, p. 43 |
| 1870 | Typhus Fever: Baltimore 282 cases; 42 deaths SOURCE: Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 710 |
Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920 