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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Philadelphia report on July 3 advises mariners trading to West Indies to wash in salt water twice daily to prevent yellow fever, citing success of two local ships saving crews while others lost hundreds.
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Method to avoid taking the YELLOW FEVER.
Directions to Mariners who trade to the West-Indies, to avoid the Yellow Fever.
The seeds of this disease, we are told, are conveyed to the ships by the land-breeze during the night, from the low and marshy ground in the neighbourhood of the seaports of the West-India islands. Sailors are predisposed to receive them, by their hard labour and intemperance during the day, and upon sleeping upon deck in the night. To prevent the reception of the disease in the above way, sailors should wash their bodies every morning and night in salt water.
Two ships which sailed from this port preserved their whole crews in good health by this simple precaution, while hundreds were dying in the ships around them, that had neglected it.
It has been found that washing the body twice a day in water in which a large quantity of salt has been dissolved, has preserved persons in good health who have lived in sickly countries during the prevalence of Autumnal fevers.
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Philadelphia
Event Date
July 3
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two ships from philadelphia preserved whole crews in good health; hundreds died in other ships that neglected the precaution; persons preserved in sickly countries during autumnal fevers.
Event Details
Seeds of yellow fever conveyed to ships by night land-breeze from marshy grounds near West-India seaports; sailors predisposed by labor, intemperance, and sleeping on deck; prevention by washing bodies every morning and night in salt water; also effective with salt-dissolved water twice daily.