Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920

Medicine
in
Maryland
1752-1920

Dates	Disease	Location	Notes	Source
1731	Smallpox	Joppa, Baltimore County		Cordell, p. 650
1747/1748	Smallpox	Cecil County		Quinan, p. 12; Cordell, p. 651
1756/05	Spotted Fever (typhus?)	Maryland		Quinan, p. 13; Cordell, p. 653
1757	Malignant fever (typhus?)	Maryland		Quinan, p. 13; Cordell, p. 653
1757	Smallpox	Annapolis	legislature meets in Baltimore as a result	Cordell, p. 653
1759	Smallpox	Bladensburg		Quinan, p. 13
1760	Smallpox	Cecil County		Quinan, p. 13; Cordell, p. 654
1762	Smallpox	Maryland		Quinan, p. 13
1764	Malignant fever	Maryland; Talbot County		Quinan, p. 13; Cordell, p. 654
1764-1765	Smallpox	Maryland		Quinan, p. 13; Cordell, p. 654
1766	Smallpox	Joppa, Baltimore County		Cordell, p. 655
1775	Smallpox	Queenstown, Queen Anne County		Cordell, p. 657
1776	Smallpox	Port Tobacco, Charles County		Cordell, p. 658
1784	Scarlet Fever	Maryland		Quinan, p. 15; Cordell, p. 662
1789	Influenza			Quinan, p. 16; Cordell, p. 664
1794	Yellow Fever	Baltimore		Quinan, p. 18; Cordell, p. 667
1794	Dysentery			Quinan, p. 18; Cordell, p. 667
1794/08	Bilious Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point	Also in Philadelphia	Quinan, p. 19; Cordell, p. 667
1795/05	Dysentery	Baltimore		Quinan, p. 19; Cordell, p. 668
1797	Yellow Fever	Baltimore		Quinan, p. 20; Cordell, p. 669
1797/08	Bilious Remittent Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point		Quinan, p. 20; Cordell, p. 669
1798	"a new and malignant fever prevails in the western part of the State"	Western Maryland		Cordell p. 670
1799	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, Cecil , Harford, Charles and Dorchester Counties	Also in Mifflin County, PA	Quinan, p. 21; Cordell, p. 671
1800	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point	Spreads to West Baltimore in September. Total deaths: 1197 (978 adults, 219 Children)	Quinan, pp. 21-22; Cordell, p. 672
1802	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point		Cordell, p. 673
1804	Bilious Fever			Cordell, p. 674
1805	Malignant Bilious Fever	Elkton	80 sick at a time	Cordell, p. 675
1807	Influenza			Cordell, 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"	Cordell, pp. 676-676
1809	Smallpox	Sharpsburg	17 deaths "due to use of spurious virus"	Cordell, p. 677
1810	Smallpox	Baltimore	"soon extinguished by vaccination through the efforts of Dr. James Smith and other"	Cordell, p. 677
1811	Smallpox and Spotted Fever	Baltimore		Cordell, pp. 677-678
1811	Cholera Infantum	Baltimore	90 deaths in August	Cordell, p. 678
1811/10-1812/04	Smallpox		135 deaths	Cordell, p. 678
1812	Smallpox	Calvert County	"Dr. James Smith extinguishes a threatened epidemic"	Cordell, p. 678
1813	Epidemic fever	Talbot & Queen Anne's Counties	winter and spring	Cordell, p. 679
1815/03	Typhus	Charles and St. Mary's Counties		Cordell, pp. 680-681; Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC) March 8, 1815, March 20, 1815, and March 30, 1815.
1816	Smallpox	Baltimore	"Threatened smallpox epidemic at Baltimore stamped out by Dr. James Smith and others"	Cordell, p. 681
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"	Cordell, p. 681
1817	Smallpox	Baltimore		Cordell, p. 683
1819	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point	2287 deaths; epidemic ends in October	Cordell, p. 685
1821	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point		Cordell, p. 686
1821	Smallpox	Baltimore	epidemic stamped out by vaccination	Cordell, 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	Cordell, pp. 692-693
1834	Smallpox	Baltimore	71 deaths	Cordell, p. 693
1837	Smallpox	Baltimore	52 deaths	Cordell, p. 695
1837	Smallpox	Baltimore	71 deaths	Cordell, p. 695
1845	Smallpox	Baltimore	110 deaths	Cordell, p. 699
1846	Smallpox	Baltimore	115 deaths	Cordell, p. 699
1847	Smallpox	Baltimore		Cordell, 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.	Sun (Baltimore) 31 Oct. 1848
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	Cordell, p. 701
1849	Cholera	Baltimore	Only 4 cases in city outside of Baltimore Almshouse	Cordell, p. 701
1849	Typhus	Baltimore Almshouse	83 cases at Almshouse and 39 deaths	Cordell, p. 701
1851	Smallpos	Baltimore	104 deaths	Cordell, p. 702
1852	Measles			Cordell, p. 702
1853	Scarlet Fever			Cordell, p. 703
1853/05	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point	18 deaths	Quinan, p. 40; Cordell, p. 703
1854	Smallpox	Baltimore	26 deaths in the city and 95 at the Marine Hospital	Cordell, p. 703
1854	Yellow Fever	Baltimore, at Fell's Point	Wills, Block, Philpot Streets and Canton Avenue. 40 cases with 20 deaths	Quinan, p. 40; Cordell, p. 703; Board of Health, Annual Report, 1854
1854	Cholera	Baltimore County	Confined to a few houses along Frederick Road outside the city limits	Board of Health, Annual Report, 1854
1855	Smallpox	Maryland		Quinan, p. 12; Cordell, p. 652
1856/11-12	Smallpox & Dysentery	Maryland	"confined to the colored race"	Quinan, p. 13; Cordell, p. 653
1857	Measles			Quinan, p. 41; Cordell, p. 705
1857	Scarlet Fever			Quinan, p. 41; Cordell, p. 705
1858	Smallpox	Baltimore	310 deaths	Cordell, p. 705
1861	Smallpox	Baltimore	225 deaths	Cordell, p. 706
1863	Smallpox	Baltimore		Quinan, p. 42; Cordell, p. 707
1864	Smallpox	Baltimore	436 deaths	Cordell, p. 707
1866	Cholera	Baltimore	First case in June. 62 deaths	Quinan, p. 43
1870	Typhus Fever	Baltimore	282 cases; 42 deaths	Cordell, p. 710

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