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43412
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One of the earliest if not the earliest reported incident of a smallpox epidemic in the region was in 1696, in present-day Beaufort and Pamlico Counties.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 31 Issue 3, july 2022,
p65-72
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43530
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Through little known information about the New Bern Smallpox Contraband Hospital, we know it was founded January of 1864 in the middle of the Civil War. The term contraband comes from when Union General Benjamin Butler refused to capture the salves Shepard Mallory, Frank Barker, and James Townsend and send them back to their masters. This was when the term contraband was meant to refer to slaves. Through the use of the term contraband this defined the slaves as property so they could not be returned back to their masters. Not long after the Union’s occupation of New Bern there was the spread of Smallpox and Yellow Fever. When servants and captured slaves began to contract Smallpox Vincent Colyer requested General Burnside to create a hospital to take care and vaccinate the “contraband”. This led to the creation of the Contraband Smallpox Hospital of New Bern.
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19524
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In response to the smallpox epidemic in other parts of the United States, North Carolina took action to safeguard its inhabitants by instituting an approach to public health similar to towns like Boston. Watson discusses the development of public health in the state in response to smallpox and the evolution of preventative measures.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 1, Jan 2013,
p26-48, il, por
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34670
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During the 1863/1864 winter, smallpox broke out in runaway slave encampments at New Bern and Beaufort. While soldiers in the nearby Union camps had been vaccinated against the disease, approximately 10% of the 2,500 black refugees at Beaufort were diagnosed with the infection. Union soldiers near New Bern were fortunately able to vaccinate the encampment before the virus spread. Soldiers at the Beaufort camp instead chose to isolate smallpox cases and the outbreak eventually died out.
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