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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 ...
Memphis: A Folk History. Parkhurst. ISBN 978-0941780087. Williams, Charles (2013). African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound: Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890−1980. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0739175859. Wrenn, Lynette Boney (1987). "The Impact of Yellow Fever on Memphis: A Reappraisal".
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
With the spread of yellow fever in 1793, physicians of the time used the increase number of patients to increase the knowledge in disease as the spread of yellow fever, helping differentiate between other prevalent diseases during the time period as cholera and typhus were current epidemics of the time as well. [13]
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]
As a result of a yellow fever epidemic in 1879, Memphis lost so much of its population that it was disincorporated and was not rechartered until 1895. This accounts for the absence of a mayor during the period 1879–1893. The city leaders during this period were known as President of the Taxing District.
Map of the Memphis sewer system in 1880. Memphis, Tennessee, had suffered several severe cholera epidemics (1849, 1866, 1873) and yellow fever (1867, 1873, 1878 and 1879), with over 5,000 fatalities in 1878 alone. [8] [9] Sanitary conditions in the city were poor, with many domestic wells close by privies and drained by a fetid bayou. Many ...