What the records say
- When
- Apr 1721 – Dec 1721
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 42.36° N, 71.06° W
- Description
- epidemic
- Deaths
- 844
- Cause
- smallpox
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1721 Boston smallpox outbreak
Disease outbreak in Boston, USA
In 1721, Boston experienced its worst outbreak of smallpox. 5,759 people out of around 10,600 in Boston were infected and 844 were recorded to have died between April 1721 and February 1722. The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of Bostonians as part of the Thirteen Colonies' earliest experiment with public inoculation.
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