An account of the malignant fever, which prevailed in the city of New-York, during the autumn of 1805 : Containing, 1. The proceedings of the Board of Health ... : 2. The rise, progress, and decline of the late epidemic : 3. An account of the Marine and Bellevue Hospitals ... : 4. Record of deaths, &c. &c. : 5. Opinion of several eminent physicians, respecting the cause of malignant fever ... : 6. The situation of the convicts in the state-prison ... : 7. Desultory observations andreflections. : 8. The various modes of cure ... / by James Hardie.
- James Hardie
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the malignant fever, which prevailed in the city of New-York, during the autumn of 1805 : Containing, 1. The proceedings of the Board of Health ... : 2. The rise, progress, and decline of the late epidemic : 3. An account of the Marine and Bellevue Hospitals ... : 4. Record of deaths, &c. &c. : 5. Opinion of several eminent physicians, respecting the cause of malignant fever ... : 6. The situation of the convicts in the state-prison ... : 7. Desultory observations andreflections. : 8. The various modes of cure ... / by James Hardie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of Heal(h, the consideration of the case of Tho- mas Young, at No. 25 Rose-street, report, that, ins visaed and *areA*Uy examined the case of the said Young, they find him, after an illness of thirteen days, apparently convalescent, and unless some un- ited reverse should take place, likely to recover short time. They think, however, that this , though mild and* moderate in degree, when idered in its whole duration, may be justly sus- pectei '■ f] rartaking of the nature of malignant fever. Mr. Vouag lingered for some time and recovered. On the 22d day of July, the board, for the first time, received some private information, that a ma- lignant or pestilential fever existed in New-Haven, Connecticut. The intelligence, however, did not appear to carry along with it, that degree of authen- ticity which would warrant the interdiction of com- merce between the two cities. It was, therefore, deemed expedient to postpone the business till the nature of the complaint at New-Haven should be more particularly ascertained. By the 26th, private letters, as well as the deposition of a respectable gen- tleman from that quarter, had fixed it beyond a doubt, that a fever, prevailed in that city, concerning which there was a considerable diversity of opinion, seme believing it to be bilious, and others to be the true yellow, or malignant fever. It was, how- ever, admitted, en all hands, that several persons had fallen victims to it, after an illness of a few days. The board, upon receipt of the above information, recommended to his Honour the Mayor, to issue his proclamation, subjecting all vessels from New- Haven to quarantine of course, and prohibiting all persons from that city to enter this city, unless they had been fourteen days from that place. The following proclamation was, therefore, issued ©n the same day.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21126446_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
