The Center for Population Economics is currently creating a new extensive and detailed database of historic sources of ecological and public health information, such as disease and mortality reports, water and milk quality, infrastructure development, geographic features, weather data, and many other related topics. If you have specific questions, please contact the CPE Program Coordinator, as we may be able to direct you to useful sources while the database is under development.

Listed below are available tables of historical public health information, as reported by the United States Public Health Service (Source:Public Health Reports, Volumes 14-40, 1899-1925). If you would like to download the file which includes all three datasets, please select the "Download Public Health Data" link.

• The 1899-1911 Weekly Mortality Tables of major U.S. cities with causes of death (diseases: pulmonary tuberculosis, enteric fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, and whooping cough). Variables also include weekly cases and death of aforementioned diseases as well as total deaths in the cities.
  
  
• The 1899-1911 Bi-Annual Smallpox Tables of major U.S. cities and counties. Variables include cases and deaths of smallpox.
  
  
• The 1912-1925 Annual Notifiable Disease Tables of U.S. cities with populations over 10,000 (diseases: diphtheria, malaria, measles, meningitis, polio, rabies in man, scarlet fever, smallpox, tuberculosis--all forms: 1912-1925; pulmonary: 1916-1925, typhoid). Variables include cases and deaths from listed diseases as well as census population.