Yellow Fever Epidemic that Almost Desolates Philadelphia, 1798



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Y/M/D Description Place
1798/08/00 Being frequently called out during the night, Dr Pascalis can strongly perceive the smell issuing from streams in Market-street as far as Mulberry-street on the one side, and Chesnut-street on the other. Old City, Philly,
1798/08/07 A quantity of rags, for a paper-maker, is sent from Philadelphia to Wilmington. Several young persons, who handled them, take ill and die. At Wilmington, it will rage, at least with equal violence, if not superior, in proportion to the number of inhabitan
1798/10/00 Joseph Tatnall dies of yellow fever in Wilmington, Delaware.
1798/12/07 Two hundred and fifty-two persons have died in Wilmington, Delaware, of the late fever, from the 7th August, to the 2d November ult. - Albany Centinel, Albany, New York

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Disease: Yellow Fever


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