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  1. A Fever Like No Other: Yellow Fever in Savannah
    date August, 1876 to 1876map CHATHAM, Georgiatags Disease in the south, urban history

    The year 1876 was a frightening time for the citizens of Savannah, Georgia because of a severe yellow fever epidemic. This disease came with terrible symptoms. The symptoms of yellow fever included fever, muscle pains, vomiting, and jaundice. Death was the common outcome for these patients. This outbreak in Savannah was noted in other rival port cities such as Galveston. This occurred in order to try...

  2. Evacuation: A Last Resort for Health- Seeking Citizens of Savannah
    date 1876map CHATHAM, Georgiatags Diseases in the south, urban history

    Evacuation in Savannah during the year 1876 was something that people in the city wanted to avoid at all costs. Unfortunately, in many cases there was simply no other option. Yellow fever struck Savannah in 1876. People began to move out of the city as soon as the disease began to spread. The immense amount of worry about the disease and its terrible symptoms caused citizens to flee the city. An 1876...

  3. The Oncoming Threat of Cholera in New Orleans in 1849
    date December 30, 1848 to January 11, 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, cholera

    After a sixteen-year hiatus, cholera was once again on the doorstep of New Orleans. On December 30, 1848, reports from Pittsburgh began circling that cholera was the responsible agent for thirteen deaths aboard steamships known as the Diadem, the Watkins, and the Savannah; all of which had docked in the New Orleans harbor. A message from Cincinnati stated that fourteen people aboard the Peytona, which...

  4. The Change of Society in New Orleans Brought on by Cholera in 1849
    date December 30, 1848 to February 17, 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags cholera, New Orleans

    The devastation of cholera resumed in New Orleans on January 13, 1849 when the Medical Board pronounced that the disease had made its way into the levee. As was the case in the cholera epidemic of 1833, no one could explain why it had suddenly sprouted up again. There had not been many records indicating that ships from Europe had brought any cases of the disease in the most recent months. Theodore...