Disasters: Natural & Man-Made » Epidemics & Plagues

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• Plagues and Epidemics

• Plagues by State, City, Date

  A history of plagues & epidemics, mostly US.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Reported Outbreaks of Infectious Disease, Maryland, 1731-1870

  Medical Care in the City of Baltimore, 1752-1919.

• The 1832 cholera epidemic in East London

• The American Experience - Influenza, 1918

  Companion web site to the PBS documentary.

• The Cholera Epidemic of 1873

  Historic narrative of the epidemic in Birmingham, Alabama including an early map of the city showing areas of the disease.

• The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Birmingham Alabama

  Article by David Bishop.

• The National Archives | The Catalogue | Research Guides - Nineteenth Century Public Health and Epidemics: Some PRO Sources

• The S.S. England Page

  In the spring of 1866, the S.S. England, a steamship from Liverpool, England, was bound for New York with over 1,300 passengers. Hundreds died from an outbreak of cholera.