The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, JULY 29.

We congratulate our fellow-citizens of Philadelphia, and the other populous maritime cities and towns of the union, on the success which has attended the vigilance and perseverance of the board of health of this city. The yellow fever of the West-Indies, has, after being imported and diffused over a considerable surface of this city—and being communicated from one person to another—after being caught by barely going on board the St. Domingo packet—and after having threatened to spread with more than its former malignity—after several had fallen victims to it with all the worst characteristics of black vomit—excruciating pains—and speedy death—that in despite of all these terrific circumstances, the board of health have succeeded in stopping its progress, and in preventing its becoming epidemic.
We have not only succeeded in preventing its progress, but totally extirpated it. We publish with peculiar satisfaction the following copy of the letter from the board of health to the governor.

HEALTH-OFFICE,
SIR,
July 2nd, 1802.

I HAVE the honor to announce to your excellency, that by the report of our committee of this morning, the fever which lately appeared in the vicinity of Vine-street has entirely subsided, and think myself warranted in saying that the city and liberties enjoy as much health, at this moment, as at any former period, and that bills of health will be issued from this office as heretofore.

With the highest respect and consideration,
I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant,
CORNELIUS COMEGYS, President.

His Excellency the Governor.

The citizens of Philadelphia have particular cause to rejoice on this occasion, and we make no doubt that the success which has attended the vigorous experiment on this occasion, will tend to allay that destructive spirit of attachment to one theory of origin, in place of attending to the public security upon the evidence of such decisive experience.

Men no doubt will yet be found blind to the evidence that stares them in the face, and we shall not be surprised to hear it maintained by those who at first wished to conceal the existence of the disease, that it has had no existence at all—or that it is of local origin if it did exist.—We shall, however, feel not so much resentment at their first blindness as pity for their literal folly.