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Thought for the Day
The secret of success: Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
HIST 2020: The U.S. Since 1877
Instructor: Ms. Laura Perry
Text: Created Equal, a la carte edition
with MyHistoryLab
Memphis, 1878
El Vomito Negro
Yellow Jack 60% mortality rate Course of 4-5 days
Arrival and spread
Came by ship or steamer Started in Happy Hollow Spread to the Pinch Arrived with warm weather Left with hard freeze
Theories
Divine punishment Noxious night air Filth of the city
1878
Up from West Indies Quarantine stations in
Germantown, Whitehaven, President’s Island
Aug. 10: Mrs. Bionda By Aug. 23, hundreds have died Nearly half of Memphians leave
town
Epidemic
Business ceases Except for undertakers Home remedies ineffective Annie Cook Memphis Relief Committee Late frost finally ends it
Memphis devastated
Over 5500 mortalities 75% of whites, 7% of blacks Many who fled did not return Lost charter in 1879
Afterward
Improving sanitation Good water supply Cause unknown until 1900 Spanish-American War Dr. Walter Reed Isolated mosquitoes