1797 Philadelphia PA newspaper w EARLY YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC described in detail

Description: 1797 Philadelphia PA newspaper w EARLY YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC described in detail 1797 Philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA newspaper with this VERY EARLY US YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC described in great detail - inv # 4E-413 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia, PA) dated Sept 5, 1797. This original newspaper contains 2 inside pages of long detailed coverage of the YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC raging in Philadelphia, PA in 1797. In 1797, Philadelphia experienced a yellow fever epidemic that lasted for about three months and killed approximately 1,500 people. Yellow fever was a mysterious and terrifying disease that spread through the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Symptoms included fever, aches and pains, nausea, and dizziness. In serious cases, the disease spread to the liver, causing jaundice, delirium, and internal hemorrhaging. Yellow fever was a major threat in the United States from 1793 to 1805, with repeated epidemics in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York. The disease was likely brought to the United States by refugees and mosquitoes on ships from Saint-Domingue. The disease probably was brought by refugees and mosquitoes on ships from Saint-Domingue. It rapidly spread in the port city, in the crowded blocks along the Delaware River. About 5,000 people died, ten percent of the population of 50,000.ABOUT the end of July, 1797, the yellow fever again made its appearance in Philadelphia. It conti|nued to extend through various parts of the City and Liber|ties, for about three months. Towards the close of October, some days of cold weather, or perhaps some natural cause beyond the reach of human conception, by degrees, abated its violence. Its ravages have now ceased; or, if a few re|maining patients can be found, they are only to be consi|dered as convalescents, and rare exceptions to the general statement, that the city is now restored to its usual propor|tion of healthiness.The citizens became more early aware of their danger than in 1793; and the speedy flight of many thousands of them into the country, seems to have been the chief cause why the mortality of this contagion has been so much less violent than that of the former. By the way, though not so generally known as to create alarm, it is true, that in the fall of 1794, Philadelphia had a transient visit from this fatal scourge. A small number of persons, perhaps twenty or thirty, died of it. The unexpected intervention of one or two days of a wind more than usually cold for that season of the year, was the apparent cause of its abrupt extinc|tion. Perhaps the infection might be less violent in its nature than that of the former year. It is well known, that the plague, while remaining identically the same disease, hath yet very different degrees of violence in its successive description.In 1794, the sickness was kept a secret by those who had an opportunity to be acquainted with its having reached the city. The news was, on every account, unwelcome; and, happily, there did not occur any positive occasion for its being generally divulged.As the consequences of the present fever have been much less dreadful than of that in 1793, an account of it will be far less interesting; besides, the subject has lost much of novelty. The silent desolation of our streets in one year, displays a close resemblance to the same scene in another year. But still it may be proper that some compendious account should be given of this calamity, that hath again so abruptly swept away so many of our relations and acquain|tances.On the 11th of August, 1797, the governor of Penn|sylvania issued a proclamation. He mentioned the intelli|gence of a contagious disease existing in the West-Indies. He enjoined that every vessel from the Islands, from New-Orleans, or from any French, Dutch, or Spanish ports on the Main, should perform quarantine for five days, at the health-office, on State-Island; or for such longer time, as the resident physicians and officers of the health-office should advise.A second copy of this proclamation was issued on the 15th of August, with the addition of "British" ports on the Main. On the 14th, the governor wrote a letter to Dr. John Redman, president of the college of physicians, requesting a state of facts as to the origin and progress of the contagion. The answer, dated August 16th, said, in a few words, that "a malignant contagious fever has lately ap|peared in Penn-street, and its vicinity, of which ten or twelve persons have died." He promised to communicate, as speedily as possible, the advice of the college. Very good condition. 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