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From: "Evelyn Matthews" <>
Subject: Re PLAGUES
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:15:35 +0100

Thomas GOULD wrote>>>

> Has anyone ever compiled a list of "Outbreaks" of
> plagues and the like, and attached dates and or locations to them?
> Have there been many in the last 300 or so years? Thank you.
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I saved this e-mail message sent to the London List, it shows some of the
plagues in the 1850's, it may be of interest to someone.

Best Wishes to you all & HAPPY EASTER,
from,
Evelyn MATTHEWS (nee TICKNER)
In Surrey.

The epidemics of plague and pestilence of the 1850's are as follows:

DATE DISEASE LOCATION
1848-9 Cholera Britain, France
1848-50 Cholera,Smallpox Tunisia, Calcutta
1850 Military Fever France
1850 Yellow Fever Rio de Janeiro
1850-51 Dengue United States
1850's-1959 3rd Pandemic Plague China,India,Sth.America,Africa
1853 Smallpox Hawaii
1853-54 Cholera Britain,France
1853-59 Cholera Germany
1854 Measles French Polynesia
1854 Cholera Canada,Spain
1854-56 Scurvey Crimea (Ukraine)
1854-56 Typhus Crimea (Ukraine)
1854-56 Cholera Crimea (Ukraine)
1854-56 Dysentry Crimea (Ukraine)
1855-58 Diptheria Europe
1857 Smallpox Calcutta
1858 Cholera Japan
1860 Military Fever France
1860-61 Cholera India
1861-65 Dysentry United States (Civil War Armies)
1861-65 Typoid United States (Civil War Armies)
1861-65 Typus United States (Civil War Armies)
1861-65 Maleria United States (Civil War Armies)
1861-65 Scurvy United States (Civil War Armies)
1861-65 Measles United States (Civil War Armies)
1861-65 Smallpox United States (Civil War Armies)

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