Special Services - Epidemics

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Created: Archives of the Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise 1832-1919.
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Cholera Cholera > New York (State) > New York
History of Medicine, Modern > Louisiana
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
Medicine > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Nursing > Religious aspects > Christianity
Nursing > United States > History
Smallpox
Women in medicine > History
Yellow fever
Yellow fever > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul > United States
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title Special Services - Epidemics
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Cholera Cholera--New York (State)--New York
History of Medicine, Modern--Louisiana
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Nursing--Religious aspects--Christianity
Nursing--United States--History
Smallpox
Women in medicine--History
Yellow fever
Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul--United States
title_short Special Services - Epidemics
title_full Special Services - Epidemics
title_fullStr Special Services - Epidemics
title_full_unstemmed Special Services - Epidemics
title_sort Special Services - Epidemics
publishDate 1832-1919.
publisher Archives of the Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise
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topic Cholera Cholera--New York (State)--New York
History of Medicine, Modern--Louisiana
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Nursing--Religious aspects--Christianity
Nursing--United States--History
Smallpox
Women in medicine--History
Yellow fever
Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul--United States
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spelling APSL-SSE Special Services - Epidemics Archives of the Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise Archives of the Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise 2020 341 S. Seton Ave, Emmitsburg, MD 21727 English APSL-SSE Special Services - Epidemics 1832-1919. Material related to 19th and early 20th century epidemics 4 boxes, 2 linear feet Archives of the Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise 341 S. Seton Ave, Emmitsburg, MD 21727 Administrative Information No restrictions for access. Where copies exist, researchers should use these as opposed to originals as possible. Permission for any type of publication of archival materials, including text, photographs, video, or audio must be secured from the Daughters of Charity Communications Director before publication. Contact archives staff for appropriate forms and contact information. Daughters of Charity, Southeast Province Preferred Citation Special Services - Epidemics, Archives of the Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise, 341 S. Seton Ave, Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Scope and Content The collection contains correspondence and accounts of special services during various epidemics in 19th and 20th century United States, including cholera in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s; yellow fever in the 1840s and the 1870s; small pox in the 1860s and 1870s, and the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. It also contains secondary articles, newspaper clippings related to the Daughters service in the epidemics. Background This is a constructed collection of various special services that the Daughters have done during epidemic crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These peacetime special services are mandated by the Paris Motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity and done at the discretion, availability, and resources of the provinces, and they may be rendered to areas not usually among the clients of the community. Epidemics of Asiatic cholera routinely struck American urban centers throughout the 19th century, with the Daughters assisting in St. Louis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Albany, Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C. in the early 1830s. Other outbreaks occurred in Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Troy, NY in the late 1840s and again in Detroit an Buffalo in the 1850s. Yellow fever was common in the South, with the Daughters assisting in Mobile, Norfolk, Portsmouth, New Orleans, and Donaldsonville between the 1840s and the 1870s. Smallpox struck Detroit and Troy in the 1880s. The nationwide Spanish flu epidemic, immediately after World War I, saw massive casualties around the United States and a wide mobilization of the Daughters. Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul--United States Cholera Cholera--New York (State)--New York History of Medicine, Modern--Louisiana Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church Nursing--Religious aspects--Christianity Nursing--United States--History Smallpox Women in medicine--History Yellow fever Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia APSL-SSESpecial Services - Epidemics 1832-1919 Box 1, Folder 1 Daughters of Charity during the epidemics and natural disasters 1 Cholera Box 1, Folder 2 Account of the cholera in Baltimore, MD (handwritten notes) Box 1, Folder 3 Account of the cholera in Baltimore, MD (copy) Box 1, Folder 4 Account of the cholera in Baltimore, MD (transcript) Box 1, Folder 5 Various Notes on the services during cholera Box 1, Folder 6 Copies of correspondence thanking the Daughters of Charity for their services - from Mayor William Steuart, City of Baltimore, MD Box 1, Folder 7 "The History of the Hospital Work of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul" by Sr. Bernadette Armiger, D.C. Box 1, Folder 8 Copies of Newspaper Clippings Box 1, Folder 9 Copies of various articles Box 1, Folder 10 Photos of the monument in New Cathedral Cemetery given by the City of Baltimore 2 Yellow Fever Box 2, Folder 1 Notes from the Provincial Annals of 1878, pages 26-95, Emmitsburg, MD (copy) Box 2, Folder 2 Notes from the Provincial Annals of 1878, pages 26-95, Emmitsburg, MD (transcript) Box 2, Folder 3 Various notes on the services during Yellow Fever Box 2, Folder 4 Copies of telegrams and correspondence Box 2, Folder 5 Booklet - "Stronger Than Death - Yellow Fever Heroes" by Leo Kalmer Box 2, Folder 6 Copies of newspaper clippings and various articles 3 Small Pox Box 2, Folder 7 Notes and copies of correspondence 4 Spanish Influenza Box 3, Folder 1 Various notes on the services during Spanish Influenza Box 3, Folder 2 Copies of various articles Box 3, Folder 3 Correspondence #1-97 (originals) 1-11 Boston, MA, 1918 - notes on district 1918 12-14 Berg, Sr. M. Claire to Mother Margaret O'Keefe, Boston, MA 1918 re: letters of sisters visiting homes 1918 15-16 Albany, NY St. John's School, 1918 1918 17-17A Albany, NY St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, Nov 1, 1918 re: temporary care of children left without parents November 1, 1918 18 Albany, NY St. Joseph's School, Nov 8, 1918 November 8, 1918 19 Telegram from James Cardinal Gibbons, Balt., MD Oct 2, 1918 re: nurses needed at Camp Meade October 2, 1918 21 Balt., MD St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, Oct 3, 1918 re: group of sisters left for Camp Meade October 3, 1918 22-24 Camp Meade, MD 1918 re: work of sisters & chaplains among stricken soldiers at camp 1918 25-26 Balt., MD Immaculate Conception School, Oct 14, 1918 re: home visiting; sisters helping at St. Agnes H. October 14, 1918 27 Balt., MD St. Agnes Hosp., Oct 8, 1918 re: Sr. Clarisse Bresnan, SS. Of St. Martin's School is at St. Agnes Hosp.; conditions at St. Martin's October 8, 1918 28 Balt., MD St. Agnes Hosp., Oct 14, 1918 re: sick sisters, nurses & employees October 14, 1918 29-30 Balt., MD St. Agnes Hosp., Oct 20, 1918 re: sick sisters; reopening on St. Martin's School October 20, 1918 31 Balt., MD St. Agnes Hosp., Oct 21, 1918 re: conditions of sisters & others October 21, 1918 32 Balt., MD St. Agnes Hosp., Oct 24, 1918 re: Dr. Harvey will go to St. Joseph's, Emmitsurg for a week October 24, 1918 33 Balt., MD St. John's Academy Oct 16, 1918 re: situation at academy October 12, 1918 34 Balt., MD St. Joseph's Lee St., Oct 12, 1918 October 12, 1918 35-39 Balt., MD Sr. Mary's Female Orphan Asylum Oct 14, 1918 re: sick children October 14, 1918 40-42 Boston, MA Home for Destitute Children, 1918 re: care of sick children & sisters 1918 43 Boston, MA St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Oct 11, 1918 re: conditions in asylum & in the city October 11, 1918 44-45 Buffalo, NY Oct 1918 re: 2 telegrams from Ft. Niagara asking for sisters October 1918 46-48 Buffalo, NY St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Oct 1918 re: conditions in St. Vincent's October 1918 49 New Castle, DE St. Peter's Convent, n.d. re: influenza still raging in Wilmington, DE 50-51 Buffalo, NY St. Vincent's Asylum, Oct 16, 1918 re: condition of children & sisters in asylum October 16, 1918 52 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, Oct 20, 1918 re: critically ill patients; home visiting; street car strike October 20, 1918 53 Buffalo, NY Emergency Hospital, Oct 6, 1918 re: now out of quarantine; poor people dying; sister nurse needed October 6, 1918 54-55 Buffalo, NY Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, Oct 6, 1918 re: officer from Ft. Niagara called for sister nurses to help at fort; condition in the hospital October 6, 1918 56 Buffalo, NY St. Vincent's Infant Asylum & Maternity Hosp., Oct 14, 1918 re: general conditions October 14, 1918 57 Bridgeport, CT St. Vincent's Hospital, Oct 30, 1918 re: sick sisters, patients; home nursing October 30, 1918 58 Bridgeport, CT, 1918 re: news clipping K of C home to become hospital 1918 59 Cumberland, MD Allegany Hospital, Oct 18, 1918 re: violence of epidemic; Ursulines & Sisters of Notre Dame have been helping October 18, 1918 60 Detroit, MI St. Mary's Hospital re: Govt asked for nurses for Camp Grant; doctors say epidemic is virulent form of diphtheria which effects lungs 61 Detroit, MI Providence Hospital, Oct 30, 1918 re: conditions in Detroit October 30, 1918 62 Detroit, MI St. Vincent's Asylum, Oct 30, 1918 re: St. Vincent de Paul Society has begged them to take in children whose parents have died October 30, 1918 63-64 Germantown, PA Gonzaga Memorial, Oct 13, 1918 re: sick children & sisters October 13, 1918 65-70 Gettysburg, PA St. Francis Xavier's School, Oct 1918 re: Rev. Boyle offered Xavier Hall as emergency hospital; sisters nursed soldiers October 1918 71-72 Greensboro, NC St. Leo's Hospital re: work of sisters; Red Cross 73 Littlestown, PA St. Aloysius School, Oct 10, 1918 re: postulant aiding in caring for sick October 10, 1918 74-75 Lowell, MA St. John's Hospital, Nov 1918 re: death of Sr. Edith; mayor opened new isolation hospital & asked for 2 nurses November 1918 76-80 Martinsburg, WVA St. Joseph's School, Oct 6, 1918 re: home visiting; Kings Daughter's Hospital; school closed indefinitely October 6, 1918 81-83 Norfolk, VA St. Vincent's Hospital & Sanitarium, Oct 1918 re: hospital full of boys from convoys 18-22 years of age; cots in halls October 1918 84 Norfolk, VA St. Mary's Asylum, Oct 20, 1918 re: St. Irene's funeral; work of each sister October 20, 1918 85 Pensacola, FL Pensacola Hospital, Oct 12, 1918 re: crowded conditions & need of nurses October 12, 1918 86-91 Petersburg, VA St. Joseph's School, Oct-Nov 1918 re: epidemic October-November 1918 92-97 Point Pleasant, NJ Oct 1918 re: 28-0300 children in bed; sick sisters; 2 sisters sent from St. Joseph's October 1918 Box 3, Folder 4 Correspondence #1-97 (Copies) Box 4, Folder 1 Correspondence #98-144 (originals) 98 Point Pleasant, NJ Oct 1918 re: 28-0300 children in bed; sick sisters; 2 sisters sent from St. Joseph's October 1918 99 Philadelphia, PA St. Joseph's Hospital, Oct 1918 re: 8 sisters from the Gesu School helping Red Cross providing supplies; 36,000 in city have died October 1918 100-103 Philadelphia, PA St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Oct 1918 re: people coming in for medicine; sisters of all orders helping; Immaculate Heart's nursing Vincentians in Germantown; Wanemaker wanted a sister for emergency for shoppers; Seminarians from Overbrook digging graves October 1918 104-106 Philadelphia, PA Cathedral Day Nursery, Oct 1918 re: emergency hospitals; all denominations begging for sisters; children left without parents; bodies piled up in cemeteries October 1918 107 Richmond, VA St. Joseph's Asylum, Oct 11, 1918 re: emergency hospital wants sister to take full charge at night October 11, 1918 108-110 Richmond, VA St. Patrick's School, Oct 1918 re: home nursing; epidemic has abated; need for another sister October 1918 111-112 Richmond, VA St. Joseph's Asylum, Oct 1918 re: strenuous work in hospital has come to an end October 1918 114-115 Rochester, NY St. Mary's Hospital, Oct 14, 1918 re: sisters are keeping up, not too many cases of influenza in the hospital; quarantined October 14, 1918 116 Reading, PA St. Catherine's Asylum, Oct 17, 1918 re: 61 children & 1 sisters in bed; sisters at school have asked to help October 17, 1918 117 Saginaw, MI St. Mary's Hospital, Oct 17, 1918 re: epidemic not bad in Saginaw; 30 nurses helping in other towns October 17, 1918 118 Staunton, VA St. Francis School, Oct 17, 1918 re: 1 sister sick October 17, 1918 119-121 Syracuse, NY St. Mary's Academy, Oct 18, 1918 re: home visiting; Ladies of Charity furnishing necessities; helping at Infant Home; Sr. Regis in danger October 18, 1918 123 Troy, NY Troy Hospital, Oct 19, 1918 re: death rate climbing; sisters from St. Mary's helping October 19, 1918 124 Saginaw, MI St. Vincent's Orphan Home, Nov 4, 1918 re: house spared from deaths; rosary crusade November 4, 1918 125 Utica, NY Utica Catholic Academy, Oct 18, 1918 re: home visiting October 18, 1918 126 Utica, NY St. John's Orphan Asylum, Oct 21, 1918 re: novena to John Gabriel Perboyre; sending help to St. Joseph's Infant Home October 21, 1918 127 Wilmington, DE St. Peter's Asylum, Oct 16, 1918 re: children sick, one died; difficulty in getting doctors October 16, 1918 128-130 Washington, D.C. St. Rose's Technical, Oct 1918 re: sisters & girls down with flu October 1918 131-132 Washington, D.C. Immaculate Conception School, Oct 6, 1918 re: helping at University Hospital, day & night duty October 6, 1918 133-137 Washington, D.C. Providence Hospital, Oct 6, 1918 re: hospital over crowded; sisters helping at University Hosp.; sisters asked for at Catholic Univ. to nurse sick sister students October 6, 1918 138 Washington, D.C. St. Ann's Infant Asylum, Nov 3, 1918 re: flu came about a week ago; conditions November 3, 1918 139 Boston, MA Archbishop's House, Sept 1918 re: appreciation of work sisters are doing September 1918 140 Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America, Oct 6, 1918 re: thanking sisters for attending sick soldiers at university October 6, 1918 141 Gettysburg, PA Camp Hospital, Camp Colt, Oct 28, 1918 re: thanking Rev. Boyle & sisters for work at Xavier Hall during epidemic October 28, 1918 142 Philadelphia, PA Archbishop's House, Oct 30, 1918 re: heroine during epidemic, witnesses of charity October 30, 1918 143 Albany, NY Office of Superintendent of Alms House, Nov 8, 1918 November 8, 1918 144 Extension Magazine, Jan 1919 re: clipping January 1919 144A Annals 1918 - pp. 55-75 excerpt 1918 144B "A student Nurse's memories of 1918 Influenza Epidemic" - by Thelma Ford Murray Box 4, Folder 2 Correspondence #98-144 (copies)

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