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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.
The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Yellow fever is known for bringing on a characteristic yellow tinge to the eyes and skin, and for the terrible “black vomit” caused by bleeding into the stomach.
May 28, 2020 · The yellow fever epidemics that struck American cities soon after the birth of the nation left a powerful mark in the historical record. That mark is visible in books, newspapers, maps and more at the Library, but especially in the papers of members of George Washington’s administration.
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1)Benjamin Rush Manuscripts Vol. 35: Let ers to Benjamin Rush on Yellow Fever 1793. These are the letters that were sent to Dr. Benjamin Rush during the Yellow Fever Epidemic. They document the symptoms and treatments of Rush’s Yellow Fever patients. These also are the letters Rush received from citizens of Philadelphia on their loved ones' symptom...
1) Dead House on Schuylkill during Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793, This image depicts a house that stood on the corner of 22nd Street on thet bank of the Schuylkill River during the Yellow Fever epidemic. 2)House of Schuylkill Fishing Company This image depicts the fishing company that furnished the citizens of Philadelphia with fresh fish du...
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 Epidemic. 2) Powell, J. H. Bring Out Your Dead; the Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Special edition, Time Reading progr...
In 1793, Philadelphia was struck with the worst outbreak of Yellow Fever ever recorded in North America. The fever took a devastating toll on the city as nearly 5,000 individuals died, among them close to 400 African Americans. Above: Dead House on the Schuylkill during the yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793, David Johnson Kennedy, Watercolor ...
This 1797 map still depicts a city with neighborhoods clustered closer to the waterfront, where mosquitoes could easily spread yellow fever among the people of Philadelphia. Philadelphia proved an ideal climate for the spread of yellow fever in the summer of 1793.
Feb 26, 2021 · It was 1795, and the yellow fever—which had burned through Philadelphia two years earlier, killing more than 10 percent of the city’s population—had arrived in New York. It would return in 1798, and those two epidemics killed between 3,000 and 3,500 New Yorkers.
