An account of the epidemic yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of New-York in the year 1795 : containing, besides its history, &c., the most probable means of preventing its return, and of avoiding it, in case it should again become epidemic / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. one of the physicians of the health committee of New-York in 1795.

  • Valentine Seaman
Date:
1796
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Credit: An account of the epidemic yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of New-York in the year 1795 : containing, besides its history, &c., the most probable means of preventing its return, and of avoiding it, in case it should again become epidemic / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. one of the physicians of the health committee of New-York in 1795. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It gradually became cooler for the firfl five days in the feventh month (July); on the 6th the mercury rofe to 8 30, which was 13° higher than it flood the day before; the next day it fell to720; after which, in the courfe of fix days, it rofe to 890 without any- material hidden change; the weather then moderated in fome degree, fo that in the laft nine days of this month it did not rife above the 8o° and in one of them it flood at 68°—the mean temperature of this month was 81 °: it rained on the 3d, 10th, 18th, 23d, 24th, 27th, 30th, and 31ft. The thermometer flood near 900 moft of the time during the firfl ten days of the eighth month (Au- gufl);onone day it was upwards of 930; in the re- mainder of the month it varied between the 60th and 88th°—great part of this time it was above 8o°, and there were but a.few days wherein it was below 72% the medium temperature of this month was 830; we had rains on the 3d, 9th, 10th, nth, 12th, 13th, 20th, 21 ft, 23d, and 31ft days, and feveral of them were very great. The firfl week in the ninth month (September) the mercury remained between yo and yf; m the fecond and third week it varied but little, one way or the other, from 80°; but we had fome cool days in the latter part cf the month, the mercury being as low as 580 on the 22d and on the 30th; mean tem- perature about 730; we had five raiflydays, viz. the 2d, 7th, 13th, 19th, and 20th. In the tenth month (October) the temperature of the air was at no time above 75°, but varied between that and 490 irregular] v; them- are was 62*; the hitter part ( f this m< fit - ,uently had white f>ofls at night; it raint 10th, 20th, and 31ft.