Bush Hill Yellow Fever 1793

Until 1800 philadelphia served as the u s. Philadelphia s yellow fever epidemic killed nearly 5 000 people between august and november 1793 nearly 10 of the city s population.

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Bush hill yellow fever 1793

The city was also home to a substantial number of people of color. The putrid beans had emitted a noxious effluvia a miasma or bad smell that seemed to sicken people. 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.

Benjamin rush linked the epidemic to a shipment of coffee beans left to rot on the arch street wharf. 3 yellow fever victims philadelphia pa. They gave her medicine broth and told her to rest.

Fever 1793 summary matilda mattie cook is a fourteen year old girl living above a coffeehouse in philadelphia with her mother grandfather a former military man a parrot named king george and an orange cat named silas. Fever 1793 grade 6 90 terms. Persons admitted to bush hill hospital sept.

Eliza a free black woman is the coffeehouse cook. These are the bush hill hospital records that documented who came into the hospital who left and who died. When yellow fever emerged in philadelphia in 1793 dr.

Did doctors in 1793 think that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in philadelphia 5 000 or more people were listed in the official register of deaths between august 1 and november 9. Learn vocabulary terms and more with flashcards games and other study tools.

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