An map showing geographic distribution of health and disease, including fever districts in the United States and West Indies. An illustration depicting charity workers and caregivers during the Memphis yellow fever outbreak, s.
An illustration of a physician from the Howard Association, an organization of volunteers, on rounds during the Memphis outbreak. Excerpts from Dr. A medal from the Howard Association, an organization of volunteers, in recognition of service during yellow fever epidemic, An account of an expedition for yellow fever relief by the US War Department, An image depicting the collection of clothes in New York for fever patients, A letter from William Lloyd Garrison to his son Francis about a fair to be held to benefit the yellow fever victims in the South, A postcard showing an armed man taking on a yellow fever-carrying mosquito, The Invention of the Telephone.
Beginnings of the American Red Cross. Women and the Temperance Movement. Space Race. Eugenics Movement in the United States. The Columbian Exchange. Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America. I should not say we will not be separated again, for we know not what hour or minuet [ sic ] death may visit us. We may be enjoying the society of each other mingling in the halls of mirth and gayety and perhaps the next day the same sound may follow us to the grave to pay the last duty to our remains.
The Cholera is very bad in Nashville. You must stay with us until it has abaited. We have had some severe attacks of the cholera morbus and I think that the next will be the cholera. Ma and grand Ma have been very sick the baby is also sick give my love to Uncle James and Cousin Sallie receive the same for yourself.
Your affectionate niece, Mary C. Polk Papers Page 2 Page 3. During the worldwide cholera epidemic, McMinn County health officer E. Shipley complains that his recommendations to the local sanitary commission had been met with "flippant indifference. Letter from E.
In an resolution, the Knoxville Board of Public Works provides two formulas for cholera disinfectants. This handbill encourages citizens to examine their properties weekly and apply a solution as needed. A special notice order to disinfect premises is issued by the Clinton, Anderson County, health officer. It offers a recipe for cholera disinfectant.
Sulphur fumigation was used to disinfect and to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, and tuberculosis. Leander A. Bennett of Henry County died in France in of pneumonia brought on by influenza. He had been in the army a little over three months and in France only one day. I had a little bird Its name was Enza I opened the window And in-flu-enza. A worldwide influenza pandemic broke out in just as U. To prevent panic, Allied governments censored reports about the "Spanish Flu" and military death records often cited pneumonia as the cause of death.
The Great Influenza Pandemic of killed million people on all seven continents and has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history. Bleeding from the ears was also common. Two examples of the hundreds of responses are shown here. The son of a Spanish immigrant who had made a fortune building rail systems to transport sugar cane, Fidel attended Roman Catholic boarding schools in Santiago de Cuba.
He became involved in In fact, the story of the song Shortly after midnight on August 13, , East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city. Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
Cary Stayner, the serial killer convicted in the grisly murders of four women near Yosemite National Park, is born on August 13, Responding to increasing Soviet pressure on western Berlin, U. The massive resupply effort, carried out in weather so bad that some pilots referred to it as The German engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of a rotary engine that will be used in race cars, is born on August 13, , in Lahr, Germany.
Wankel reportedly came up with the basic idea for a new type of internal combustion gasoline engine when he was only 17 years old. In , Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Today, yellow-fever outbreaks still occur in Africa and South America. Latin America.
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