November 14, 1853 to November 28, 1853

TRAVIS, Texas, HARRIS, Texas

Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy, Education

The formation of the Texas Medical Association was in response to a lack of good health in Texas and also to a growing number of quack physicians in the state. Yellow fever and malaria greatly afflicted coastal Texas, especially Galveston, in the 1840s and 1850s. The mortality rates were so bad that nearly fifty percent of children were dying before they reached adulthood on the coastline of Texas....