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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A letter from New Orleans dated September 13 reports a raging fever epidemic likened to the plague, with 146 deaths in the last week, rapid course among newcomers (only 1 in 10 survive), and deaths featuring black vomit while retaining faculties. The disease changes character yearly, evading prior treatments, amid scenes of distress.
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"The fever raging here is equal to the plague in any of the Barbary States. Not more than one out of ten of the new comers who have had the temerity to remain here this season, has escaped death; and the course of the disease has been uncommonly rapid.—the number of deaths for the last week were 146.—They die with the black vomit generally, in possession of all their reasoning faculties."
The letter gives a gloomy picture of the scenes of distress that had passed under the writer's eye. It adds, "what makes it worse, is, that every season it changes its character, so far as not to be subdued by the same treatment that was successful in a preceding one."
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New Orleans
Event Date
13th Of September
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146 deaths in the last week; not more than one out of ten newcomers escaped death; rapid course with black vomit
Event Details
Fever raging in New Orleans equal to the plague; uncommonly rapid among newcomers who remain; changes character each season, not subdued by prior treatments; gloomy scenes of distress