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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.
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.
Philadelphia. In early August 1793, lodgers at the North Water Street boardinghouse of Richard Denny fell violently ill. Within days, four boarders and two workers perished after experiencing high fevers, seizure attacks, episodes of vomiting black bilious substances, and jaundiced skin.
Introduction. Be ween 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.
May 28, 2020 · The 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic: The Washingtons, Hamilton and Jefferson. May 28, 2020. Posted by: Neely Tucker. This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division. Martha Washington, in an unfinished portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Theodor Horydczak Collection. Prints and Photographs Division.
The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. One of the first major epidemics of the disease in the U.S., it devastated America’s early capital. It also had lasting repercussions for the city and country. by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins and Anna Coxe Toogood.
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.
