An account of the malignant fever, lalely [sic] prevalent in the city of New-York / by James Hardie, A.M. ; copy-right secured according to act of Congress.

  • Hardie, James, 1758-1826.
Date:
1799
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    in the neighbourhood of fome of thofe cellars, many of them {towed with large quantities of putrid beef; in neighbourhood of filthy teWers, or other nuifances, and, alio, from its fpreading on Golden-hill and Ctifl which are in a northerly direction from fome of thofe dens of peftilence I havejuft mentioned, and of c i ibfe to be afted upon by the pre vailing-fouth wind tdw- everwell founded this opinion may be, with reijfeft to agency of thofe things, in producing the difeafe, f all thefe, other facts, which I will relate, has almqft in- duced me to believe, that all is not to he charged to them. They rendered the neighbourhood highly coniDuiiible, but perhaps a fpark of contagion might be neceffary to pro- duce fo dreadful a conflagration. The firft appearance of the diforder was in Front-ftreet, near Coen ties-flip, where Melanclon Smith died, about the 28th, or 29th of Ji and on the 30th Peter A. Schenkwas taken feverely i The following week, one Willbn, M. Smith, jen. Peter Duflan and wife, and A Adriance, had flight attack's, from whence it fpread to other families in a very fhorttime. •'• The next appearance of the fever was at the houfc of Henry Mead, at the lower corner on the well fide of New-flip. Some.time in July, the fhip Fame, laid to have arrived from fome one of the Well-India iHands, came to the wharf next below the New-flip, and lay there fome time. About the 3d or 4th of Auguft, fome people went to difcharging the ballaft and pumping her out; a- niong the ballad, was a quantity of damaged ex- tremely putrid, which, with the water diicharged from the pump, was fo offenuve to the fmell, that the neighbours were induced to (hut their windows, efpecially while eat- ing. About the 6th of faid month, the following perform fpenta confiderable part of the day ai Mead's houfe, John Taylor, Ebenezer Taylor, Syivanus Seapjart, Ivlonmoutn Tlubbs, Walter Davis, Augultus P ung 'man, clerk in a ft'ote near the r::change ; of thefe * The people ofthisne.;■■,. d laid the bl h Rcfoicfs to the ichooncr Fox, which arriv. cemie between the middle and latter part of July, and bawled 10 a wharf a little call of Coeoties-liip. where Hie unloaded, and upon pumpi her bilge-water was very offenfive ; but I think the filth to be obtei .'c3 in this par: oft] [-cite as i:kc.y to give them fever, as bilge-water and mo1