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In Montreal, between 3,500 and 6,000 Irish immigrants died of typhus or "ship fever" in fever sheds in a quarantine area known as Windmill Point in 1847 and 1848. The immigrants had been transferred from quarantine in Grosse Isle, Quebec. Due to a lack of suitable preparations, typhus soon reached epidemic proportions in Montreal.
September 1 – Lord Elgin visits the Irish fever sheds at Windmill Point, Montreal, during the typhus epidemic of 1847. September 5 – Kasey banishes Lord Elgin from her kingdom. October 18 – Telegraph Line from Quebec to London, Canada West, complete. October 23 – 65 immigrants die in a week at Pointe St. Charles neighbourhood of Montreal.
In Canada alone, the typhus epidemic of 1847 killed more than 20,000 people from 1847 to 1848, mainly Irish immigrants in fever sheds and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard coffin ships. [43] In the United States, epidemics occurred in Baltimore, Memphis and Washington DC between 1865 and 1873, and during the US ...
1847 North American typhus epidemic: 1847–1848 Canada Typhus: 20,000+ [145] 1847 Southern United States yellow fever epidemic 1847 Southern United States (especially New Orleans) Yellow fever: 3,400 [146] 1847–1848 influenza epidemic 1847–1848 Worldwide Influenza: Unknown [147] 1848–1849 Hawaii epidemic of infections 1848–1849 ...
A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox or typhus. Often used for forcible quarantine , many towns and cities had one or more pesthouses accompanied by a cemetery or a waste pond nearby for disposal of the dead.
John Easton Mills (October 14, 1796 – November 12, 1847) served briefly as mayor of Montreal, Quebec. In March 1846, Montreal city council deadlocked on the choice of a mayor. Mills had ten votes, and incumbent mayor James Ferrier had nine, but Ferrier voted for himself twice, in accordance with existing rules. Municipal paralysis ensued ...
1847 North American typhus epidemic This page was last edited on 28 January 2024, at 17:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
1847 – October 23 – 65 immigrants die in a week at Windmill Point. 1847 – November 1–9, 634 deaths of mostly Irish immigrants since January 1. 1847 – November – Death of John Easton Mills, mayor of Montreal, as he tends the sick in the fever sheds; 1847–48 – In all, between 3,500 and 6,000 Irish immigrants die of the Typhus ...