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Thought for the Day

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.

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Thought for the Day

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  1. 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

  2. HIST 2020: The U.S. Since 1877 • Instructor: • Ms. Laura Perry • Text: • Created Equal, a la carte edition with MyHistoryLab

  3. Memphis, 1878

  4. El Vomito Negro • Yellow Jack • 60% mortality rate • Course of 4-5 days

  5. Arrival and spread • Came by ship or steamer • Started in Happy Hollow • Spread to the Pinch • Arrived with warm weather • Left with hard freeze

  6. Theories • Divine punishment • Noxious night air • Filth of the city

  7. 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

  8. Epidemic • Business ceases • Except for undertakers • Home remedies ineffective • Annie Cook • Memphis Relief Committee • Late frost finally ends it

  9. Memphis devastated • Over 5500 mortalities • 75% of whites, 7% of blacks • Many who fled did not return • Lost charter in 1879

  10. Afterward • Improving sanitation • Good water supply • Cause unknown until 1900 • Spanish-American War • Dr. Walter Reed • Isolated mosquitoes

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