Daily AncestorGlanders
Glanders was a contagious disease of horses and mules that could pass to the people who handled them, with a high death rate in humans.
Webster's 1913 describes glanders as a very destructive, contagious disease of horses, asses and mules, with a sticky discharge from the nose and swollen glands under the jaw, and notes that it could pass to human beings.
People caught it through skin cuts, the nose or mouth, or by breathing it in. The death rate in humans was high. Glanders has its own code in the cause-of-death scheme IPUMS applied to the 1850 to 1880 mortality schedules.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Pat Mulroy, 36, M, W, Hostler, Glanders
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