Meeting minutes of the committee formed to combat the 1793 epidemic in Philadelphia. Includes a list of people admitted to the hospital and their outcomes as well as mortality statistics.
Published in The Medical Repository (v.1, 2nd ed., 1800), this article describes an outbreak in New York in 1795 and includes an early attempt to trace the source of a disease using maps.
A report on the 1819 outbreak of yellow fever in New York City that describes the outbreak and the city's response. Includes a map noting individual cases.
Report on an 1858 outbreak of yellow fever in Charleston, S.C. The library holds many other local reports on yellow fever and these often include data on the ill and dead.
A journal published by the U.S. Marine Hospital Service providing news on outbreaks around the world and reporting on scientific research into the cause and prevention of yellow fever.
A report presented to the U.S. Senate that includes summaries of yellow fever research conducted by Walter Reed and James Carroll, reports from sanitary officers in Cuba, and directions on mosquito eradication from William Gorgas.
This publication chronicles the efforts to eradicate yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone and Havana, Cuba. Also includes a history of yellow fever and summaries of the research conducted by Walter Reed and others.
An online exhibit from Duke University Libraries about the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia featuring the Benjamin Rush papers as well as other library resources related to the disease.
A selection of primary sources from the Digital Public Library of America from the 1878 outbreak that spread from New Orleans and up the Mississippi River.
An online exhibit from the University of Virginia focusing on the efforts to demonstrate the role of mosquitoes in spreading yellow fever. The site includes digitized archival sources related to Walter Reed and the work of the commission.
The letters of Benjamin Rush, a prominent Philadelphia physician, cover a wide variety of topics, but focus primarily on medical concerns, particularly the 1793 and other yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, as well as mental illness and its treatment, and the medical department of the Continental Army. The collection is available online.
Collection includes two documents related to a yellow fever outbreak in Savannah in 1888: a certificate of clearance for a ship and a health certificate for a woman.
John P. Barney describes New York City during the 1795 yellow fever epidemic. He discusses the impact of the disease and reports of people hiding their illness to prevent being taken to Bellevue Hospital.
This small collection of correspondence discusses, among many things, yellow fever outbreaks in Memphis, Chattanooga, and New Orleans in the 1870s.
Please note that there are many collections like the Giles F. Ward Papers and the James W. Pierce Papers that include mentions of yellow fever (as well as other diseases) in the correspondence between family members and friends.
