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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![moreover, falutary*. The fphere of action of the diforder was diminifiied. Two or three empty houfes arrefted the difeafe in its progrefs, as it was {lowly, but furely travelling thi’ough a ftreet, and probably refcued a neighbourhood from its ravages. We {hall long have to mourn the fevere lofs our city has felt, in being bereft of fo many valuable citizens: and had the 17,000 who retired, been in the city during the prevalence of the diforder, and loft as large a proportion of their number, as thofe did who re¬ mained, we fhould, inftead of 4000 dead, have loft nearly 6000 \ and perhaps had to deplore in the number, another Clow, a Kay, a Lea, a Sims, a Dunkin, a Strawbridge, men of exten- live bufmefs, whofe lofs will be long felt—a Pen¬ nington, a Glentworth, a Hutchinfon, a Sar- ]eant, a Howell, men endowed by heaven with eminent abilities—-a Fleming, a Graefsl, a Sproat, men of exalted piety and virtue—a Wil- N O T E. * Perhaps had all our citizens remained, we lhould have had famine added to our calamity ; whereas we had plentiful markets during the whole time. The prices, foo, were in general not far beyond what they are ufually at the fame feafon of the year.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794390_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
