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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.
1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic; 1800s. 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; 1849-1850 Tennessee cholera epidemic; 1853 yellow fever epidemic [1]
With the spread of yellow fever in 1793, physicians of the time used the increase number of patients to increase the knowledge in disease as the spread of yellow fever, helping differentiate between other prevalent diseases during the time period as cholera and typhus were current epidemics of the time as well. [13]
In 1799, an outbreak of yellow fever spread rapidly through Philadelphia, the fourth such outbreak of the decade. [3] Incorporated in 1792, the city of Trenton, New Jersey, had developed into a thriving trade town by 1799. [4]
Yellow fever accounted for the largest number of the 19th-century's individual epidemic outbreaks, and most of the recorded serious outbreaks of yellow fever occurred in the 19th century. It is most prevalent in tropical-like climates, but the United States was not exempted from the fever. [ 42 ]
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is a 2003 nonfiction adolescent history by author Jim Murphy published by Clarion Books. An American Plague was one of the finalists in the 2003 National Book Award and was a 2004 Newbery Honor Book. It portrays the agony and pain this disease brought upon ...
Parrish was 33 years old during the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, which claimed the lives of 5,000 Philadelphians (then one-tenth of the population).Her parents were among those who fell ill during the epidemic and she made a vow to devote her life to philanthropy should they recover.
In 1793, one fifth of the city's population had died in a yellow fever epidemic; the disease reappeared in 1797, and again the following summer. In late-August 1798, President John Adams, Congress, and many of the inhabitants abandoned the city.