Disasters: Natural & Man-Made » Epidemics & Plagues

1849 St. Louis Cholera Epidemic Helps Initiate Sewer Construction

Missouri.

A General Study of the Plague in England 1539-1640 With a Specific Reference to Loughborough

Includes information on the ceasation of parochial registration at the height of the plague.

Bubonic plague hits San Francisco 1900 - 1909

Epidemic Disease in London

From the Centre for Metropolitan History.

Epidemics

Epidemics

Epidemics and Military Battles

Epidemics in the USA 1657 - 1819

Epidemics in U.S. - 1657 - 1918

Epidemics in US 1628-1918

Genealogy Quest: Genealogical Research Assistance - American Epidemics

History of Epidemics and Plagues

This site focuses on the medical causes and transmission mechanics of epidemics but does give some interesting historical background.

Influenza Encyclopedia

From the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine. An estimated 650,000 Americans lost their lives to the infamous and tragic 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, of the approximately 50 million deaths the disease caused worldwide. The collection includes more than 16,000 digitized documents: correspondence, newspaper accounts, military records, diaries, photographs, and more.

List of Epidemics

List of epidemics through time.

Major US Epidemics

Brief timeline with death tolls from some of the major epidemics in US history.

Ontario's Historical Plaques

Since 1956, over 1,100 Ontario Historical Plaques have been erected to commemorate people, places & events in Ontario's heritage.

OntarioGenWeb - Disasters

Historic disasters in the province of Ontario.

Open Collections Program: Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

A digital library collection from Harvard University's libraries. Organized by date & location of the epidemics, these materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages freely accessible via the Internet.

Plague in San Francisco: An Essay Review

From the Journal of the History of Medicine.

Plagues & Epidemics

From a history of plumbing, this site focuses on this history of water-borne diseases.