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The entire Mississippi River Valley from St. Louis south was affected, and tens of thousands fled the stricken cities of New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Memphis.The epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley also greatly affected trade in the region, with orders of steamboats to be tied up in order to reduce the amount of travel along the Mississippi River, railroad lines were halted, and all the ...
1873 – Yellow fever epidemic. [2] 1874 – Memphis Cotton Exchange founded. 1875 – Southwestern at Memphis (college) established. [1] 1878 – Yellow fever epidemic. [3] [2] 1879 – Yellow fever epidemic. [2] Plan of the Memphis sewer system in 1880. 1880 Sewer system construction begins [13] Population: 33,592. [9] [2] 1882
Extensive yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s (1873, 1878 and 1879) devastated the city. In 1873 some 2,000 people died, the highest fatalities of any inland city. [31] Because of the severity of the 1873 epidemic, when yellow fever was diagnosed on August 5, 1878, more than 25,000 people left the city within two weeks. [31]
In the 1870s, a series of yellow fever epidemics devastated Memphis, with the disease carried by river passengers traveling by ships along the waterways. During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, more than 5,000 people were listed in the official register of deaths between July 26 and November 27.
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During Memphis's 1873 yellow fever epidemic, he—along with other Memphis rabbis and leading Jews—remained in the city rather than fleeing. [60] During the seven weeks the epidemic lasted, 51 people were buried in B'nai Israel's cemetery, almost twice the number typically buried there in a whole year. [61]
Brownsville was struck by the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. [9] The city saw 844 reported cases of the disease and suffered more than 200 deaths. [30] [9] Members of the Howard Association supplied much needed assistance to Brownsville during this time. [30] Many victims of the epidemic were buried in Brownsville's Oakwood Cemetery.
Once the disease hit Memphis, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad enabled it to travel into smaller towns throughout Tennessee. The epidemic that resulted from the railway transmission became so bad that the trains on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad became the transportation for supplies to cure the many that were affected.