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Those dead at the Denny boardinghouse were the earliest recorded cases of the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic. Between August and November 1793, yellow fever upended the United States’ temporary capital, bringing commerce to a halt, crippling the city’s government, and killing over 5,000 of the city’s 50,000 inhabitants.
During the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. 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. By the end of September, 20,000 people had fled the ...
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From the Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. Two thousand free Black people ...
This map created a few years after the 1793 epidemic helps students to visualize the City as it was during that time. Secondary Sources: 1) Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. This is a popular classroom book to begin a unit on Yellow Fever. It is a young adult historical fiction novel about the Yellow Fever ...
May 28, 2020 · Between 1793 and 1805, waves of yellow fever attacked northern ports in the U.S. Then the disease retreated south, where it persisted through the end of the 19th century. At the turn of the 20th century, a time of great advances in bacteriology, scientists discovered that yellow fever was transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Unknown Correspondent. 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.
Apr 4, 2020 · Site Map; Connect with Us. Presented By. ... Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Bettmann Archive. Ideas. By Joshua Kendall. ... the yellow fever would decimate the city, wiping out 5,000 ...
