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It was chosen as a New York Times editor's pick [6] and a Book Sense pick. [7] The book is the narrative account of a disease that once ravaged cities like New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans culminating in the devastating 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee—the worst urban disaster of its time.
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 ...
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]
Annie Cook (c. 1840 – September 11, 1878) was a madam who converted her Memphis, Tennessee brothel into a hospital and nursed patients suffering during the Yellow fever epidemics of 1873 and 1878. [1] She has been called the Mary Magdalene of Memphis. [2]
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is a 2003 nonfiction adolescent history by author Jim Murphy published by Clarion Books. An American Plague was one of the finalists in the 2003 National Book Award and was a 2004 Newbery Honor Book. It portrays the agony and pain this disease brought upon ...
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
The team was able to determine that Yellow Fever was carried by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. [2] After returning to Memphis, she founded the Tennessee Nurses Association and the Tennessee Health Association, organized Red Cross chapters, and served as the state chairperson for the Red Cross Nursing Department from 1910 to 1932. [2]
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1879, Moore was among the first to promote a committee on sanitation in Memphis that would improve the city's drinking water system. [1] As a result, breeding grounds for mosquito activities, which caused the plague, were eliminated.