When (what year) was the largest number of recorded cases of malaria
in Washington DC, and how many cases were there? ($10.00)

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 25 Mar 2005 08:22 PST

epiguy,

I haven't seen specific historical data for Washington DC, but there
are stats on malaria eradication for the country as a whole.

In general, the number of cases declined very rapidly from 1920
through the 1940's, and malaria was essentially eradicated in 1949. 
Cases were at their peak in 1920 -- prior to that time, I'm not sure
reliable statistics are available.

Does that help at all?

pafalafa-ga

May 1948

There were 6 known cases and 3 cases with symptoms which later didnot
result in Malaria.

Source:

Medical journal on epidemics and endemics.

Thanks anyway pafalafa but I wanted data for DC. I already have quite
a bit of data about the US at large.

prakash123,
This answer doesn't make sense. Malaria was essentially gone from DC
after WWII. It was rampant during the early days of the city. But I
wanted to know if anyone had hard data about case counts during these
early days.
epiguy