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Apr 30, 2024 · Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson is the story of Mattie, a teen who lives in Philadelphia with her mother, and grandfather in 1793 during the yellow fever epidemic. Mattie’s family owns a coffee house called the Cook Coffee House. Mattie's mother thinks that she is lazy because she sleeps too late.
The medical community disagreed on the causes and treatment for yellow fever. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a prominent physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and opponent of Hamilton’s politics, emerged as the figurehead for the faction of physicians who believed the epidemic developed from miasma, or impure air, in Philadelphia.
August 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States. But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease.
Reports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793. Between August 1 and November 9, 1793, approximately 11,000 people contracted yellow fever in the US capital of Philadelphia. Of that number, 5,000 people, 10 percent of the city’s population, died. The disease gets its name from the jaundiced eyes and skin of the victims.
5. New Orleans; Summer 1853; 8000 or more dead. This outbreak illustrated a racial disparity in yellow fever mortality; 7.4% of white residents died, but only 0.2% of blacks. 6. Norfolk; June-Oct ...
Sep 1, 2000 · by Gary Paulsen. In an intense, well-researched tale that will resonate particularly with readers in parts of the country where the West Nile virus and other insect-borne diseases are active, Anderson (Speak, 1999, etc.) takes a Philadelphia teenager through one of the most devastating outbreaks of yellow fever in our country’s history.
Yellow Fever: Directed by James Davey. With Walter Staib. In the summer of 1793, a terrible plague swept through Philadelphia. Yellow Fever wiped out ten percent of the population.
