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. To which are added accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead from August 1st to the middle of December, 1793 / By Mathew Carey.

Mathew Carey

Date:: January 16, 1794

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. To which are added accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead from August 1st to the middle of December, 1793 / By Mathew Carey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$( 5° r rain, or both together. If from the former, how fhall we account for a greater mortality in September, than in\Auguift, whereas the degree of heat was con- fiderably abated? How fhall we account fora greater mortality in the firft part of OGober than in Sep- tember,’ although the heat was ftill abating ? If rain - be the'efficient caufé of arrefting the diforder, as is fauppofed by thofe who attribute its declenfion to the rain on the evening of the rsth* of Odober, how fhall we account for the’ inefficacy of a :conftant rain _ during the whole terrible twelfth of O&ober, when one-hundred and eleven fouls wete fummoned out of this world, and a ‘hundred and four.the day follow: ing? To make the matter more plain, Prequeft the . feader’s attention to the following ftdtement :— MS YORvat g Pom Deaths, Wind. Weathers: \yvr EB pee eg > Ra Bre Mrs 7B WW tt fait to Ge So END 9 Vg0 INOW «faire Alin Lon omy ays) Gael Linen DEW cicbaint iy al? alo: PD ML RI as 69. 104 NiWiin fairiivew sa: m APP SR Goid. oa Ww fairi: is eh melee Ae PEGE 119 8s.0. NAV, 3 yfairs. wore i] eel « ba Lote 35. S. ) fair, high wind) FeO GG! 98 0 aged DWiélondysa elicdy ‘. An examination of this table, by any man unbiat: fed by the received opinion, will, I think, convince: him of the jutticé of the hypothefis which I have 2d- vanced—that the increafe or.abatement of the vio- lence of the diforder, depended on other caufes than the degices of heat, cold,. rainy or dry weather. Here is the mott palpable proof. The average of the thermo- meter, the four firft quoted days, was 75. 9° —the ave- tage of the deaths 65.5. The fecond four days,» the _ thermometer averaged 70.25, although the frightful _ average of deaths was, 106.75. Andon thé laft four t 4 ¥ Peete ine AS eg OME CERT Sey Rae Pree tanya ry rte The rain on ghis evening was not by any means fo great Mat onthe rath. © es$

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