"The Flu": a brief history of influenza in U.S. America, Europe, Hawaii

by A. A. St. M. Mouritz

1847–8

PANDEMIC IX. Point of origin unknown; center of the focus of the disease the Eastern Hemisphere and Europe especially. More females than males were attacked.

Great mortality; of those affected with the disease, there died

83% of children, babies and infants.

104% of those 15 to 60 years.

247% of those over 60 years.

(Authority, Peacock.)

In Paris ¼ to ½ of the population were attacked.

In Geneva ⅓ of the population were attacked.

In London 250,000 were said to have been stricken.

U. S. America escaped the disease.