A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States / [Mathew Carey].
- Mathew Carey
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States / [Mathew Carey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![* deaths did not exceed from forty to fifty daily, many men had the modefty to write, and others, throughout the continent, the credulity to be- lieve, that we buried from one hundred to one hundred and fifty*.' Thbufands were fwept off . • 1W i i \ K . . . ■: NOTES. “ people are interred indifcriminately in three tiers of ff coffins. From the mod: accurate obfervations I can make upon , matters, 1 think I fpeak within bounds,, when “ I fay, eighteen hundred perfons ha^e periffied (I do not “ fay all of the yellow fever) fince its fjrft appearance.” •» ,y • ■ * * From the Maryland Journal, of Sept. 2*]th. Extrctft 'of a letter from: Philadelphia, dated Sept. 20tht “ .The difovder feems to be much the fame in this “ place, as 'when I laft wrote you : about 1500 have fal- << len victims to it. Lak Sunday, Monday, and Tuefday, “ there were not'defs than 356 died with thisfevere difbr- “ der ! ! 1 -As I informed you before; this is the mod: dif- treked place I ever beheld. Whole families go in the dif- “ order, in the courfe of twelve hours. * For your own “ lakes, ufe all poffible means to keep it out of Balti- “ more.” • V ■ ExtraCl of a letter from Philadelphia, cf the fame date : “ The malignant fever wli-ich prevails here, is kill in- “ creafing.' Report fays, that above one hundred have “been buried per day for fome time paft. It is how “thought to be more infectious titan ever. I think you “ ought to be very careful with refpedfc to f admitting “ perfons from Philadelphia into your town.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794390_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
