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  1. 1836
    Hawaiian monarchs order foreigners screened for smallpox
    Kuhina Nui Elizabeth Kaho‘anoku Kina‘u (a wife of the late Kamehameha II) takes the first documented ...
  2. 1839
    Kamehameha III makes quarantine laws
    King Kamehameha III establishes quarantine laws and the first records of vital statistics in the Hawaiian ...
  3. 1845–48
    A series of epidemics kills thousands in Hawai‘i
    Successive epidemics of diarrhea, influenza, measles, and whooping cough kill 10,000 in the Hawaiian ...
  4. 1848
    Successive epidemics spread across U.S., Alaska, Hawai‘i
    In September, a series of deadly epidemics, including measles, whooping cough, and influenza, sweeps ...
  5. 1850
    Kamehameha III appoints a Board of Health
    King Kamehameha III establishes Hawai‘i’s first Board of Health to organize the response to epidemics ...
  6. 1853
    Smallpox epidemic spreads to Hawai‘i
    Smallpox takes the lives of more than 5,000 Hawaiians, making it among the three worst epidemics in ...
  7. 1854
    Kamehameha IV turns to Western medicine to fight smallpox
    King Kamehameha IV orders smallpox vaccinations for all in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. ... Epidemics ... Hawai‘i ... Watercolor ...
  8. 1863
    Leprosy spreads
    The missionary physician Dwight D. Baldwin of Lahaina on Maui reports that 54 people in his church are ...
  9. 1865
    First leprosy hospital established on O‘ahu
    On O‘ahu, Kalili Hospital, the first hospital for leprosy, is established near Honolulu. ... Epidemics ... Hawai‘ ...
  10. 1866
    Hawaiian leprosy patients sent to Moloka‘i Colony
    The first leprosy patients are sent into forced quarantine at Kalawao on Moloka‘i. About 3,000 more ...
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