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During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1st and November 9th. The vast majority of them died of yellow fever , making the epidemic in the city of 50,000 people one of the most severe in United States history.
A Short Account of the Malignant Fever (1793) was a pamphlet published by Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) about the outbreak of the Yellow Fever epidemic Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia in the United States. The first pamphlet of 12 pages was later expanded in three subsequent versions.
The 1793 yellow fever epidemic, the largest outbreak of the disease in American history, killed as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – roughly 10% of the population. [3] Ffirth joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1801 to study medicine, and in his third year he began researching the disease that had so significantly ...
In 1793, Dr. Foulke helped identify the outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia alongside Dr. Benjamin Rush, and dedicated himself fully to treating patients throughout the city as the disease spread. [5] he saw one of the first recorded cases of yellow fever alongside Dr. Hugh Hodge. [6]
In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Philadelphia and the College proposed eleven public health measures to the mayor. When the epidemic returned in 1794 and 1797, the College organized the municipal response, proposing a city health law and a Board of Health with the authority to enforce quarantine.
The Yellow Fever Memorial was built in 1856 in Laurel Hill Cemetery to honor the Philadelphia "Doctors, Druggists and Nurses" who helped fight the epidemic in Portsmouth, Virginia [24] The steamship, Benjamin Franklin sailing from Saint Thomas in the West Indies and carrying persons infected with the virus arrived in Hampton Roads in ...
Until 1800, Philadelphia served as the capital city of the United States and the seat of its federal government. [2] In 1799, an outbreak of yellow fever spread rapidly through Philadelphia, the fourth such outbreak of the decade. [3] Incorporated in 1792, the city of Trenton, New Jersey, had developed into a thriving trade town by 1799. [4]
1793, during the Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic, President Washington and his cabinet move to Germantown; 1794, Washington spends two months in Germantown to avoid the heat in Philadelphia; July 20, 1825, General Lafayette visits Germantown; June 6, 1832, railroad from Philadelphia to Germantown opens