National Hotel disease

When

Jan 1857

Kind

Epidemic

Coordinates

38.89° N, 77.02° W

Description

mysterious sickness in the 1850s

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1857 mysterious sickness in Washington, D.C.

The National Hotel epidemic was a mysterious sickness that began to afflict persons who stayed at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., in early January 1857. At the time, the hotel was the largest in the city. By some accounts, as many as 400 people became sick, and nearly three dozen died.

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